Virgil Thomson
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Four Saints In Three Acts
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Oh Virgil! A Theatrical Portrait
Company Bios
MICHAEL CONLEY (Music Director and Pianist), conductor, composer, pianist, organist, and singer, in addition to his work with the West Village Chorale these past 8 seasons, was in 2006 appointed Music Director of the Choral Arts Society of Westchester. Mr. Conley also held the position of Assistant Conductor of the Collegiate Chorale for five seasons. He worked with Music Director Robert Bass in the rehearsal and preparation of over fifteen Carnegie Hall performances and in 2005 was the Music Director and conductor for the Chorale'S Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute, entitled “Remembering the Dream,” At the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Times Square. He also prepared members of the Chorale for performances of SchÜTz'S History of the Birth of Christ With the EOS Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Ethical Culture Society, and for Mendelssohn'S Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” With the Ulster Philharmonic Orchestra under Thierry Fischer. Mr. Conley’s other New York City conducting engagements in recent years have included a collaboration with the Omega Dance Company at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, conducting Bernstein'S Chichester Psalms And Copland'S In the Beginning; an acclaimed performance of the Mozart Requiem At St. Stanislaus Church commemorating the 150th anniversary of the death of Chopin, and a series of holiday concerts for Sacred Music in a Sacred Space At the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. He also served as Chorus Master for the Connecticut Grand Opera'S 2003-04 season, including productions of Gounod'S Faust, and Verdi'S Macbeth. Since 2004, Mr. Conley has served as Director of the High School Chorus at the prestigious Dalton School; besides leading its in-school concerts, in the spring of 2005 he conducted the Dalton Chorus in several concerts in Italy, including St. Peter'S in Rome, and the Duomo in Florence, and in 2007, he led them on a tour of Vienna, Prague and Budapest, including a performance with the Prague Royal Orchestra. Also in 2006 Mr. Conley was chosen as the Music Director for Judson Memorial Church, on Washington Square South in Manhattan, one of the country'S most historically progressive and dynamic congregations. Along with leading The Judson Choir and planning and performing all music for services and special events, he also began a series called “JudsonArts” The series draws on Judson's rich history as a performance venue and an Off-off Broadway Theater to present performances of musical theater works, dance, drama, chamber music and more.
VICTORIA (VICKY) DEVANY (Ms. Waston, Leana, Metropolitan Opera Lady, Interviewer) has appeared in regional, summer theatres, concert halls, and on tour, throughout the east coast and Midwest. She has performed in venues such at Wolf Trap, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space and Resorts International. Vicky has been a member of the Woodstock Fringe Playwrights Unit since its inception and appeared in the original staged reading of Oh Virgil!; she is delighted to see it receive a full production, and is grateful to all of its supporters. Vicky serves as Literary Manager for the Woodstock Fringe Festival, which produced her one-act, At the Rhiga Royal. Her one-act, In the Time Remaining, was seen last summer with Voices from the Fringe. Its sister piece, Time to Spare....? originated with the Fringe, and was performed at Bank Street and in Virginia. She has performed for the Woodstock Fringe Festival as Millie, in Backwards, as well as numerous readings, with Wallace Norman in Songs of the Theatre: A Concert Cabaret, and she served as understudy for Women on Fire. She is also a director/instructor/dramaturge, and proud member of AEA and the Dramatists Guild. Special thanks to Wallace, this entire cast and crew, and as always to David Steinberg, for listening, and for inspiring her with his beautiful, violin music.
WATSON HEINTZ (Soprano, Gertrude Stein) is excited to perform Oh, Virgil! once again, after a wonderful time in the reading at the Woodstock Fringe Festival and thrilled to be back at Judson after a thrilling run of the musical version of The Great Nebula in Orion by Lanford Wilson, composer, Kenneth Fuchs. Watson studied voice at Anderson University then moved to New York City where she enrolled at AMDA. Since that time, Watson has had the great pleasure to study around the country with numerous fantastic teachers, including San Francisco’s Gualtiero Negrini, Craig Wich of The Boston Conservatory of Music and NYC’s Carolyn Paulus. Watson's list of credits include: Into the Woods, Run for your Wife, Carousel, Call Me Madam, as well as numerous revues, readings, opera workshops and original shows including Martin Guerre with the New Opera Musical Theatre Initiative in Boston and recording the role of 'Katisha' in a modern J-pop version of The Mikado. Look for her in the fall, pairing up with whacky co-horts in “Chorale Hygiene”! Check out the details coming soon at www.watsonheintz.com.
CRAIG NAPOLIELLO (Scenic Designer) Past NYC credits include The Lodger, Flower Productions, The Germans In Paris, Verse Theater Manhattan, Arpegio and Providince, MTWorks, Guest at Central Park West, WorkShop Theatre Company, along with others. Assistant design credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival, projects with Clint Ramos and G.W. Mercier. Received his MFA from the University of Iowa.
WALLACE NORMAN (Playwright, Oh Virgil!) is Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe and Wallace Norman, has been acting, producing, directing, writing and performing for more than 25 years. A versatile actor, he has appeared in more than sixty productions in Off-Broadway, Regional and Stock theaters. He has performed in plays, musicals, opera, television, film and nightclubs, and has a particular interest in developing new plays and musical theatre works. He has trained extensively at the Herbert Berghoff Studio in New York City, studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and has taught acting at Nassau Community College and voice privately in New York City. In 2008 he directed two Off-Broadway Premieres, Jamaica Farewell, by Deborah Ehrhardt at the So-Ho Playhouse and The Great Nebula In Orion by Lanford Wilson at the Judson Memorial Church, the inaugural show presented by Judson Arts, a new music and theatre program under the Artistic Direction of Michael Conley. Norman is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe where has produced six (annual) Festivals of Theatre & Song at the historic and beautiful Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. Mr. Norman has written three full-length plays, Crane Cottage, It Can't Happen Here, and Oh Virgil! A Theatrical Portrait, written in collaboration with Larry Alan Smith. Norman's plays have been read and produced at TheaterSounds, Woodstock Theatre Company, and Woodstock Fringe.
JACOB PLATT (Lighting Design) Recent Credits: Tuesdays With Morrie (Backstage Theatre, Breckenridge, CO) Defying Gravity, Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage (NJ Theater Project) Fresh Kills (59E59, NYC), New York Is Dead, I Used To Write On Walls, Penetrator, Many Worlds, To Ninevah (Working Mans Clothes Productions) Maccabeat! (Happy Hanukkah Productions (NYMF)) The Ugly Duckling, Finding The Sun, Waiting for the End of Summer (Marymount Manhattan College). Associate LD: To David F. Segal; See Rock City... (Barrington Theatre Company) Assistant LD: To David F. Segal; Three Travelers (off-Broadway - The New Federalist Theatre) Just Another Man (University of Las Vegas). Jake attended Carnegie Mellon for Lighting Design and earned a BA from Marymount Manhattan College in Theatre Arts.
DEAN POWERS (Costume Design) has been with the Fringe from the very beginning. Recent credits: Into The Woods, Women on Fire, Backwards, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Stronger and The Dazzle.
TROY VALJEAN RUCKER (Baritone Ogden Reid) N.Y./Regional: Zanna, Don’t!, Elegies for Angels…, Calling, Margaret Garner (NYCOpera), 365 Days/365 Plays, Show Boat, Ragtime, South Pacific, Angels In America (PAGE Award Nomination), L’Histoire du Soldat, Babes In Toyland, operas of: Verdi, Puccini, Beethoven, Joplin. National/European Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar, International Symphony. Performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Aretha Franklin with the Detroit Symphony. TV/Commercials: Preston on “Drama Queenz” (web series), History Channel, NBC, UPN, Ford Motor Company. www.TroyValjeanRucker.com
LARRY ALAN SMITH (Concept, collaborator, Oh Virgil!) Praised by The New York Times as “a young composer of great gifts”, LARRY ALAN SMITH has developed an international reputation as a composer, performer, educator and arts executive. Many of today’s outstanding soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras have performed and commissioned works by Larry Alan Smith. Upon hearing the world premiere of his one-act opera, Aria da Capo, the well-known Chicago-based critic, Claudia Cassidy, reported: “This is remarkable opera theatre…Smith has an ear for flaring brilliance…All this seems to me a true talent, primarily because I want to hear Aria da Capo again.” He began his earliest musical training in Ohio, and pursued his studies in France with Nadia Boulanger and at The Juilliard School with Vincent Persichetti. While earning his B.M., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees at Juilliard, he was the recipient of several prizes, including the Joseph Machlis Prize for outstanding distinction in composition. During his final year of study, Dr. Smith was appointed to the Faculty of the Juilliard School where he taught from 1980-86. Previously, he was on the Composition Faculty of the Boston Conservatory. An award-winning and prolific composer, Larry Alan Smith is represented and published by the Theodore Presser Company. Dr. Smith is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and he serves on a number of regional and national boards. He is currently Professor of Composition at the Hartt School and Artistic and Executive Director of Wintergreen Performing Arts in Wintergreen, Virginia. From 2003-2007 he was the Artistic Director of American SongFest at the Woodstock Fringe in Woodstock, New York. Dr. Smith is also a prolific poet who resides in Avon, Connecticut with his wife, pianist Marguerita Oundjian Smith, and their sons, Jamie, Christopher, Benjamin and William.
www.larryalansmith.com
NICOLA SHEARA (Stage Director) has directed scores of plays in the Hudson Valley and in regional theaters across the country. For Wallace Norman at Woodstock Fringe she has directed "Great Nebula in Orion", "Art',
"Backwards", Randy Cohen's "Punishing Blow”, and has also appeared as a multitude of women in "The Days Are As Grass" and "Women On Fire". In the Hudson Valley she has directed for PAW ( "Proof", "Rabbit Hole", "All My Sons", "Necessary Targets" and "Wenceslas Square", and performed in "Collected Stories" and "Love Letters"), for The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, the Bardavon, and Shadowland in Ellenville. A member of Actors Equity Association since 1973, Nicola has appeared on Broadway in "The Grapes of Wrath" (TONY Award - Best Play); in the National Tour of "Nicolas Nickelby" (Best Featured Performer Award from the Cleveland Critics Circle); Off Broadway, and in regional theaters from the Alley to the Walnut. She originated the role of Chick in "Crimes of the Heart" at the Actors Theatre of Louisville with Kathy Bates, and received Best Leading Actress nominations for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "The Country Girl". She is thrilled to have the Fringe as her artistic home. Nicola is the Founding Artistic Director of THEATERSOUNDS HUDSON VALLEY PLAYREADING SERIES now in its ninth season.
VICTOR TRURO (Virgil Thomson) (SAG, AEA, AFTRA) played Virgil in a staged reading of this play at the Woodstock Fringe in 2007. He often does professionals (Edie Falco’s OB-GYN on “The Sopranos”; Judge Douglas Spivak on “Law & Order”; Michelle Pfeiffer’s pediatrician in “One Fine Day”; Robert Duvall’s proctologist in “The Paper”; assistant DA in “Presumed Innocent”; newspaper editor in “Prancer” ; Fred Gwynne’s corporate lawyer in “Secret of My Success”), professionals of sorts (Murray the sleazy pharmacist on “Criminal Intent”; mob lawyer in Blake Edward’s “Big Rosemary” ), entrepreneurs (sex shop owner, with Jill Clayburgh, in “Never Again”), plainer folk (counterman, with Alan Arkin in “13 Conversations”; Napolitano cook in “The Trade”; homeless beggar in “Shock To The System”), and sundry fools and knaves (5 Woody Allen movies).
DAN VIA (Arthur Judson, The Visitor) NEW YORK: It’s Our Town, Too (Vital Theatre Company), Season’s Greetings (Hudson River Rep), Archipelago (Intentional Theatre Group) and Madonna and Child and Other Divas (2007 NY International Fringe Festival). Readings at The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Abingdon Theatre Company. WASHINGTON DC: The Invention of Love and Indian Ink (Studio Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre) Oh, The Innocents! (Theater J), 1984, Elephant Man, Cloud 9, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and The Flu Season (company member, Catalyst Theater Company), Love’s Fire and Kit Marlowe (Studio Theatre Secondstage), The Philadelphia Story (Rep Stage), Corpus Christi (Source Theatre), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Theater Alliance), Ubu Roi (Rorschach Theater Company), Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Power of the Dog (Longacre Lea), In the Boom-Boom Room (Project Y), Laughing Wild (Open Circle). FILM & TELEVISION: “One Life to Live”, Exodus 20:13, Soulmates. Student projects at NYU, Columbia and NYIT. TRAINING: Wynn Handman Studio, The Barrow Group, The Studio Theatre Conservatory of Acting.
JILLIAN ZEMAN (Associate Producer/ Production Stage Manager, Sound Design) is thrilled to be back with Woodstock Fringe. National: James and the Giant Peach (PSM) and Winnie the Pooh (PSM) with Two Beans Productions. NY credits include: Ragtime (PSM) with APAC, Greetings from Yorkville (PSM) at the SoHo Playhouse and Jamaica Farewell for its NY Fringe encore performance at SoHo Playhouse (PSM/Lighting Designer). She has been the PSM of the Woodstock Fringe Festival for 3 years and worked on: The Dark Wood (PSM), Greetings From Yorkville (PSM/Lighting Designer), Jamaica Farewell (PSM/Lighting Designer), Oh Virgil! A Theatrical Portrait (PSM/Lighting-Sound Designer), Backwards (SM/Sound Designer), Almost Obscene (SM) and Women on Fire (PSM) at the Byrdcliffe Theatre. Other NY credits include: Dark of the Moon (PSM), Arpeggio (Producer), Folie A Deux (PSM), and A Christmas Carol (SM). She holds a BA in Production and Stage Management from Marymount Manhattan College.
VICTORIA (VICKY) DEVANY (Ms. Waston, Leana, Metropolitan Opera Lady, Interviewer) has appeared in regional, summer theatres, concert halls, and on tour, throughout the east coast and Midwest. She has performed in venues such at Wolf Trap, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space and Resorts International. Vicky has been a member of the Woodstock Fringe Playwrights Unit since its inception and appeared in the original staged reading of Oh Virgil!; she is delighted to see it receive a full production, and is grateful to all of its supporters. Vicky serves as Literary Manager for the Woodstock Fringe Festival, which produced her one-act, At the Rhiga Royal. Her one-act, In the Time Remaining, was seen last summer with Voices from the Fringe. Its sister piece, Time to Spare....? originated with the Fringe, and was performed at Bank Street and in Virginia. She has performed for the Woodstock Fringe Festival as Millie, in Backwards, as well as numerous readings, with Wallace Norman in Songs of the Theatre: A Concert Cabaret, and she served as understudy for Women on Fire. She is also a director/instructor/dramaturge, and proud member of AEA and the Dramatists Guild. Special thanks to Wallace, this entire cast and crew, and as always to David Steinberg, for listening, and for inspiring her with his beautiful, violin music.
WATSON HEINTZ (Soprano, Gertrude Stein) is excited to perform Oh, Virgil! once again, after a wonderful time in the reading at the Woodstock Fringe Festival and thrilled to be back at Judson after a thrilling run of the musical version of The Great Nebula in Orion by Lanford Wilson, composer, Kenneth Fuchs. Watson studied voice at Anderson University then moved to New York City where she enrolled at AMDA. Since that time, Watson has had the great pleasure to study around the country with numerous fantastic teachers, including San Francisco’s Gualtiero Negrini, Craig Wich of The Boston Conservatory of Music and NYC’s Carolyn Paulus. Watson's list of credits include: Into the Woods, Run for your Wife, Carousel, Call Me Madam, as well as numerous revues, readings, opera workshops and original shows including Martin Guerre with the New Opera Musical Theatre Initiative in Boston and recording the role of 'Katisha' in a modern J-pop version of The Mikado. Look for her in the fall, pairing up with whacky co-horts in “Chorale Hygiene”! Check out the details coming soon at www.watsonheintz.com.
CRAIG NAPOLIELLO (Scenic Designer) Past NYC credits include The Lodger, Flower Productions, The Germans In Paris, Verse Theater Manhattan, Arpegio and Providince, MTWorks, Guest at Central Park West, WorkShop Theatre Company, along with others. Assistant design credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival, projects with Clint Ramos and G.W. Mercier. Received his MFA from the University of Iowa.
WALLACE NORMAN (Playwright, Oh Virgil!) is Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe and Wallace Norman, has been acting, producing, directing, writing and performing for more than 25 years. A versatile actor, he has appeared in more than sixty productions in Off-Broadway, Regional and Stock theaters. He has performed in plays, musicals, opera, television, film and nightclubs, and has a particular interest in developing new plays and musical theatre works. He has trained extensively at the Herbert Berghoff Studio in New York City, studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and has taught acting at Nassau Community College and voice privately in New York City. In 2008 he directed two Off-Broadway Premieres, Jamaica Farewell, by Deborah Ehrhardt at the So-Ho Playhouse and The Great Nebula In Orion by Lanford Wilson at the Judson Memorial Church, the inaugural show presented by Judson Arts, a new music and theatre program under the Artistic Direction of Michael Conley. Norman is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe where has produced six (annual) Festivals of Theatre & Song at the historic and beautiful Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. Mr. Norman has written three full-length plays, Crane Cottage, It Can't Happen Here, and Oh Virgil! A Theatrical Portrait, written in collaboration with Larry Alan Smith. Norman's plays have been read and produced at TheaterSounds, Woodstock Theatre Company, and Woodstock Fringe.
JACOB PLATT (Lighting Design) Recent Credits: Tuesdays With Morrie (Backstage Theatre, Breckenridge, CO) Defying Gravity, Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage (NJ Theater Project) Fresh Kills (59E59, NYC), New York Is Dead, I Used To Write On Walls, Penetrator, Many Worlds, To Ninevah (Working Mans Clothes Productions) Maccabeat! (Happy Hanukkah Productions (NYMF)) The Ugly Duckling, Finding The Sun, Waiting for the End of Summer (Marymount Manhattan College). Associate LD: To David F. Segal; See Rock City... (Barrington Theatre Company) Assistant LD: To David F. Segal; Three Travelers (off-Broadway - The New Federalist Theatre) Just Another Man (University of Las Vegas). Jake attended Carnegie Mellon for Lighting Design and earned a BA from Marymount Manhattan College in Theatre Arts.
DEAN POWERS (Costume Design) has been with the Fringe from the very beginning. Recent credits: Into The Woods, Women on Fire, Backwards, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Stronger and The Dazzle.
TROY VALJEAN RUCKER (Baritone Ogden Reid) N.Y./Regional: Zanna, Don’t!, Elegies for Angels…, Calling, Margaret Garner (NYCOpera), 365 Days/365 Plays, Show Boat, Ragtime, South Pacific, Angels In America (PAGE Award Nomination), L’Histoire du Soldat, Babes In Toyland, operas of: Verdi, Puccini, Beethoven, Joplin. National/European Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar, International Symphony. Performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Aretha Franklin with the Detroit Symphony. TV/Commercials: Preston on “Drama Queenz” (web series), History Channel, NBC, UPN, Ford Motor Company. www.TroyValjeanRucker.com
LARRY ALAN SMITH (Concept, collaborator, Oh Virgil!) Praised by The New York Times as “a young composer of great gifts”, LARRY ALAN SMITH has developed an international reputation as a composer, performer, educator and arts executive. Many of today’s outstanding soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras have performed and commissioned works by Larry Alan Smith. Upon hearing the world premiere of his one-act opera, Aria da Capo, the well-known Chicago-based critic, Claudia Cassidy, reported: “This is remarkable opera theatre…Smith has an ear for flaring brilliance…All this seems to me a true talent, primarily because I want to hear Aria da Capo again.” He began his earliest musical training in Ohio, and pursued his studies in France with Nadia Boulanger and at The Juilliard School with Vincent Persichetti. While earning his B.M., M.M. and D.M.A. degrees at Juilliard, he was the recipient of several prizes, including the Joseph Machlis Prize for outstanding distinction in composition. During his final year of study, Dr. Smith was appointed to the Faculty of the Juilliard School where he taught from 1980-86. Previously, he was on the Composition Faculty of the Boston Conservatory. An award-winning and prolific composer, Larry Alan Smith is represented and published by the Theodore Presser Company. Dr. Smith is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and he serves on a number of regional and national boards. He is currently Professor of Composition at the Hartt School and Artistic and Executive Director of Wintergreen Performing Arts in Wintergreen, Virginia. From 2003-2007 he was the Artistic Director of American SongFest at the Woodstock Fringe in Woodstock, New York. Dr. Smith is also a prolific poet who resides in Avon, Connecticut with his wife, pianist Marguerita Oundjian Smith, and their sons, Jamie, Christopher, Benjamin and William.
www.larryalansmith.com
NICOLA SHEARA (Stage Director) has directed scores of plays in the Hudson Valley and in regional theaters across the country. For Wallace Norman at Woodstock Fringe she has directed "Great Nebula in Orion", "Art',
"Backwards", Randy Cohen's "Punishing Blow”, and has also appeared as a multitude of women in "The Days Are As Grass" and "Women On Fire". In the Hudson Valley she has directed for PAW ( "Proof", "Rabbit Hole", "All My Sons", "Necessary Targets" and "Wenceslas Square", and performed in "Collected Stories" and "Love Letters"), for The Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, the Bardavon, and Shadowland in Ellenville. A member of Actors Equity Association since 1973, Nicola has appeared on Broadway in "The Grapes of Wrath" (TONY Award - Best Play); in the National Tour of "Nicolas Nickelby" (Best Featured Performer Award from the Cleveland Critics Circle); Off Broadway, and in regional theaters from the Alley to the Walnut. She originated the role of Chick in "Crimes of the Heart" at the Actors Theatre of Louisville with Kathy Bates, and received Best Leading Actress nominations for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and "The Country Girl". She is thrilled to have the Fringe as her artistic home. Nicola is the Founding Artistic Director of THEATERSOUNDS HUDSON VALLEY PLAYREADING SERIES now in its ninth season.
VICTOR TRURO (Virgil Thomson) (SAG, AEA, AFTRA) played Virgil in a staged reading of this play at the Woodstock Fringe in 2007. He often does professionals (Edie Falco’s OB-GYN on “The Sopranos”; Judge Douglas Spivak on “Law & Order”; Michelle Pfeiffer’s pediatrician in “One Fine Day”; Robert Duvall’s proctologist in “The Paper”; assistant DA in “Presumed Innocent”; newspaper editor in “Prancer” ; Fred Gwynne’s corporate lawyer in “Secret of My Success”), professionals of sorts (Murray the sleazy pharmacist on “Criminal Intent”; mob lawyer in Blake Edward’s “Big Rosemary” ), entrepreneurs (sex shop owner, with Jill Clayburgh, in “Never Again”), plainer folk (counterman, with Alan Arkin in “13 Conversations”; Napolitano cook in “The Trade”; homeless beggar in “Shock To The System”), and sundry fools and knaves (5 Woody Allen movies).
DAN VIA (Arthur Judson, The Visitor) NEW YORK: It’s Our Town, Too (Vital Theatre Company), Season’s Greetings (Hudson River Rep), Archipelago (Intentional Theatre Group) and Madonna and Child and Other Divas (2007 NY International Fringe Festival). Readings at The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Abingdon Theatre Company. WASHINGTON DC: The Invention of Love and Indian Ink (Studio Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre) Oh, The Innocents! (Theater J), 1984, Elephant Man, Cloud 9, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me and The Flu Season (company member, Catalyst Theater Company), Love’s Fire and Kit Marlowe (Studio Theatre Secondstage), The Philadelphia Story (Rep Stage), Corpus Christi (Source Theatre), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Theater Alliance), Ubu Roi (Rorschach Theater Company), Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Power of the Dog (Longacre Lea), In the Boom-Boom Room (Project Y), Laughing Wild (Open Circle). FILM & TELEVISION: “One Life to Live”, Exodus 20:13, Soulmates. Student projects at NYU, Columbia and NYIT. TRAINING: Wynn Handman Studio, The Barrow Group, The Studio Theatre Conservatory of Acting.
JILLIAN ZEMAN (Associate Producer/ Production Stage Manager, Sound Design) is thrilled to be back with Woodstock Fringe. National: James and the Giant Peach (PSM) and Winnie the Pooh (PSM) with Two Beans Productions. NY credits include: Ragtime (PSM) with APAC, Greetings from Yorkville (PSM) at the SoHo Playhouse and Jamaica Farewell for its NY Fringe encore performance at SoHo Playhouse (PSM/Lighting Designer). She has been the PSM of the Woodstock Fringe Festival for 3 years and worked on: The Dark Wood (PSM), Greetings From Yorkville (PSM/Lighting Designer), Jamaica Farewell (PSM/Lighting Designer), Oh Virgil! A Theatrical Portrait (PSM/Lighting-Sound Designer), Backwards (SM/Sound Designer), Almost Obscene (SM) and Women on Fire (PSM) at the Byrdcliffe Theatre. Other NY credits include: Dark of the Moon (PSM), Arpeggio (Producer), Folie A Deux (PSM), and A Christmas Carol (SM). She holds a BA in Production and Stage Management from Marymount Manhattan College.