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SCOTT MARSHALL TAYLOR - (playwright, actor,
director, litmus
tester) - [NYC/Hoboken, NJ]
email: STaylor@prodigy.net
SUSAN SCHARNAU (nee THOMAS) - [Marion, Iowa]
(BA '91)
email: suzastock@yahoo.com
PHIL THOMPSON - (actor, director, dialect
specialist) - [Irvine,
CA]
Phil returned to UC Irvine to teach Voice. He does lots of
dialect coaching these
days and is currently coaching Horton Foote's Getting Frankie
Married and Afterwards
at South Coast Rep. and the Opera, Dead Man Walking at Opera
Pacific. He'll be
heading back to coach at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in May.
Phil is married to
Tira Palmquist (BA 1985) and they have a daughter, Maja, who is now
12. "She is
a fabulous person and my personal role model. She has applied to
a performing arts
school in creative writing... Any words of warning?"
email:pthompso@uci.edu
JAMES THORN - (actor) - [Chicago]
(BA '83)
Although a misanthropic crank, four out of five court-appointed
psychiatrists have
indicated that Jim is at present not a danger to himself or others.
Jim's performances
since moving to Chicago have been sporadic: Mephistopheles in Faust
Project at
Chicago Actors' Ensemble and Donner in the Les Enfants du Mais The
Eight at Zebra
Crossing during '96, as well as two roles in Mystery at Midnight
at Stage Two with
a whole cadre of fellow RM41ers in early '97. A production of Fred
Norberg's one-man
theological tragicomedy Saved at Cafe Voltaire was named one of
the Best of '95 by
New City and called "exquisite artistry" by the Reader ("And this from
Booth!" to quote O'Neill), but had a median audience of around six.
Other yellowed
and fading clippings include Lloyd in Mud at the Omaha Magic
Theatre in '85,
written and directed by Maria Irene Fornes, and Adolf Hitler (and
diverse associated
persons) in the one-man Fictional Episodes in the Life of a German
Corporal,
written and directed by Todd Ristau and performed at Iowa City, Kansas
City, and Edinburgh
over the long course of '91.
email: FucciXXV@aol.com or james.thorn@azbar.org
JACQUE TROY - (actor/educator) - [Milwaukee,
WI]
(BA '89)
Current Position: Education Director at Milwaukee Repertory
Theater. In my
fourth year with this company, I still enjoy the diversity of my
duties, which
include: writing study guides, hiring local artists for teaching
support,
coordinating and teaching in-school programs. We taught over 10,000
students last year.
Additionally, I regularly teach adult acting classes for
non-professionals.
Last season, I was also asked to understudy one of the roles in Collected
Stories.
In the recent past, I have performed with Boulevard Ensemble Theatre,
Windfall Theatre,
In-Tandem Productions, Stage West and Milwaukee Shakespeare
Theatre.
Recently, Jacque has performed with Milwaukee Repertory Theater,
Milwaukee
Shakespeare, Next Act Theatre and Rennaissance Theatreworks.
email: jtroy@milwaukeerep.com
TIMOTHY X. TROY - (director) - [Milwaukee,
WI]
(MFA '89)
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Theatrea and Drama (Theatre
and Music-Drama) at
Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin where I teach directing,
acting, general
theatre studies, voice and diction, playscript analysis. My directing
responsibilities
include theatre, a bi-yearly musical, and an opera production each
year. Freelance
Activities: Freelance theatre director in the Milwaukee, Madison, and
Chicago markets for
the past 6 years. Regular assignments include DuPage Opera Theatre,
UW-Madison Opera, The
Boulevard Theatre and Playwrights Studio Theatre in Milwaukee.
email: TroyT@lawrence.edu
PAULINE TYER - (director) - [Iowa City]
(MFA '94)
Paying off large student loan by working at ACT, but allows me to
direct whenever I
choose. U of I pays me to direct in Playwright Festival since new plays
are my focus. Keep
in close touch with Naomi Wallace. We still hope to work together again
someday. She still
misses my work. Get to Chi-town whenever I can to see various Rm41
talents. Like the
smaller theatres - more interesting plays.
email: paulinetyer@aol.com
MICHELE ULLIAN (née SOHNER)
(BA, 1991)
Michele is the Program Coordinator for the Training and Development
program at Korn/Ferry
International. At home she creates a variety of original American
crafts. She
and her husband, Peter, live in the relatively undiscovered
neighborhood of Inwood, at the
Northern Tip of Manhattan, across the street from Inwood Hill Park, and
the last old
growth forest on the island of Manhattan. Their son, Alexander,
born February 1st,
2001, likes to talk to their two cats, Beethoven and Gershwin.
PETER ULLIAN - (playwright, screenwriter) -
[New York]
(MFA '93)
Peter Ullian is a 2001 recipient a Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical
Theater Foundation
Commendation Award for his work in the American Musical Theatre, the
first librettist to
receive this award. He also received a Roger L. Stevens Award
from the Kennedy
Center/Fund for New American Plays for his drama In the Shadow of
the Terminal
Tower. Terminal Tower served as the basis for the musical Eliot
Ness in Cleveland (music
and lyrics by Robert Lindsey Nassif), for which Peter wrote the
libretto. Eliot Ness
in Cleveland was developed in the Harold Prince Musical Theatre
Workshop, and subsequently
produced at the Denver Theatre Center and the Cleveland
Playhouse. Peter also wrote
the libretto for The Flight of the Lawnchair Man (music and
lyrics by Robert Lindsey
Nassif), part of the
musical 3hree. 3hree premiered at the Prince
Music Theatre in Philadelphia, with
Lawnchair Man directed by Harold Prince. This production
of 3hree received a
Barrymore Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical in
the 2000-2001 Philadelphia theatre season, and The Flight of the
Lawnchair Man was
nominated for a Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play. 3hree
was subsequently
produced at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, also with Harold
Prince as the director
of Lawnchair Man. This production tied with Death
of a Salesman for the best play of
the 2000-2001 Los Angeles theatre season in a Downtown LA Weekly
readers’ poll.
Peter’s other plays include Hester Street Hideaway: A Lower East Side Love Story,
commissioned and produced
off-Broadway by En Garde Arts. He has also received commissions
from the Iowa
Cultural Council (Hawkeye!) and Snap Two Productions (Terezin). Hawkeye! was
produced by Iowa’s University Theatres as part of the Iowa
Sesquicentennial
Celebration. Peter’s screenplays include Justice for
Paramount Pictures and
A
Beginner’s Guide to Armed Robbery for Hollywood Pictures /
Windancer Films. His original screenplay
Survivors was optioned by
Oscar-winning producer Mark Johnson, and subsequently optioned by actor
Alfred Molina and
director Mark Rydell. His fiction includes “Owen’s
Blood”, published in Cemetery Dance, and “The Vietnamization of
Centauri
V”, which appears in the DAW Books anthology Star Colonies. Peter
is a member
of the Dramatists Guild and the WGA, East. He is currently
working on a new musical
with Robert Lindsey Nassif for Harold Prince. He and his wife,
Michele, are the
proud parents of Alexander, born February 1, 2001.
email: PDUllian@aol.com
BRUCE VIEIRA - (actor) - [San Francisco]
email: brucevieira@mac.com
TERRY WALCUTT - (director) - [Anaheim]
email: twalcutt@fullerton.edu
EDWIN MATTHEW WALTER -
(set/lighting designer) - [Portland, OR]
(MFA '04)
Edwin headed to
NYC after graduation where he eked out a day life in architecture and
periodically working as a design assistant for a year. He was also
fortunate to have collaborations in NYC with fellow alums Tony Bingham, Terra
Gillespie and Dana Hardy on Allison Moore’s EIGHTEEN in NY and in PA (thanks to
alum Joe Hiatt) and Peter Gil-Sheridan on his production of TOP TEN; designed a
new 100-seat theatre for alum Stephanie Richards in Elk Horn City, Kentucky
(ACT4.org); returned for a third season at Iowa Summer Rep in 2005; and is
currently developing a short shadow puppet piece with alum Stephanie Braun (they
were short-listed for a Jim Henson Foundation Grant!). Edwin is
starting his second season as the resident Scene Design Assistant at the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. His partner (and alum) Brian Lee
Bennett recently celebrated their 13th
anniversary
ema
il: emwalter@earthlink.net
web:
http://homepage.mac.com/emwalter
WENDI WEBER - (actor) - [Chicago]
(MFA '94)
Living in Chicago. Still doing theatre (Free
Associates, Apple Tree, Court, European Rep, Festival Theatre at Oak Park,
Organic, etc. Check resume for more credits. Resume not
included). Teaching acting at Columbia College, Chicago. Two time
director of the Freshman Performance Project.
email: wendiweber@penguinmail.com
ADAM WHISNER - (actor) -
[Minneapolis]
(BA '93)
Adam's main gig continues with the Best Buy
Enterprise as the host of their in-house video news magazine, TAGtv,
a cross between The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live. The theatre career is on hold
as his band, Blacktop Badge, revs up for a Twin Cities' club scene
assault. They just cut an
album which is in the mixing/mastering phase, after which point they're putting
together a huge marketing package to hit the ground running, playing an original
set of two guitar rock reminiscent of The Faces and Aerosmith circa 1974. Adam does 99% of the writing and
composing, but he's not singing anymore.
They hired a 24-year-old kid who's like a cross between Chris Robinson
from the Black Crowes and a can of Red Bull someone just shook up. Their MySpace page is brand new and we haven't messed with it at
all yet, but you can hear one of our songs. More to
come. He's also still a motorcycling
fiend.
email: whizbang@mn.rr.com
web: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=96877536
LEZLI WHITEHOUSE - (actor, costumer,
childrens theatre
teacher/director) - [Boston]
University of Iowa student (actor) from 1984-1987 (BA) ... Currently,
graduate student in
speech-language disorders, interested in professional voice, deaf
education and Deaf
culture.
email:
Whitehouse.Lezli@mgh.harvard.edu
SEAN WILLIAMS - (actor) - [Chicago, IL]
(MFA)
email: swilliams@popmail.colum.edu
KAREN JANES WODITSCH -
(actor) - [Chicago]
Karen Janes Woditsch is an AEA actress in Chicago,
married to still handsome Matthew Janes and has a beautiful son named Benjamin.
She has worked at numerous theatres all over Chicago, including, The Goodman
Theatre, Northlight, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and 16 productions with
Writers' Theatre. She is currently in Chalk Garden at Northlight Theatre, will
be in Crumbs from the Table of Joy at The Goodman in May and in Spring 2007
Othello at Writers Theatre. She occasionally sings the Iowa Waltz in the
shower.
email: wojanes1@sbcglobal.net
CATHERINE WOODMAN - (actor, director) -
[Oakland, CA]
(BA w/High Honors '95)
Has done a variety of theatre and film stuff. One
Last Kiss(a terrible play at the University of Hull in England) Last
of the Red Hot
Lovers, Lesbianism Made Easy, (a comedy, thank god). Film -
various scenes, Goodbye
Emma Jo (yes I did it), and a hellish shoot playing an alien
pantherwoman of all
things in Outbound. Directed my girlfriend's show, Leaving
Scarsdale in
Berkeley & L.A.(including the HBO Workspace, all to her credit).
Wrote Circus Radio
Drama playing in a coffeeshop CD machine near you. I currently am
performing in my friend
Cathleen's show as one of the Hair Dryer Queens. Which is about
the level of drama
I can take presently.
email: lovecatwood@yahoo.com
CHANNING WORK - - [Burbank, CA]
He has spent four years working on films like Bridges of Madison
County, Chain
Reaction, Volcano, Home Alone III and recently Out
of Sight.
Currently, he works as a creative associate for Ricardo Mestres
Productions (101
Dalmations [Live Action Version], Flubber). Most of his
time is spent reading
scripts and researching the net for new ideas. Yes, he finally has the
power to say yes or
no to a script. A power he uses to benefit his own personal needs. He
plans to spend the
next couple of years with this Disney based company.
email: chanwork@earthlink.net
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