Sylvia Cast & Crew
John D. Alexander (Tom, Phyllis, Leslie)
John began acting in NYC, moved to Burlington in 1982, and returned to the boards in 1993. Since then, he has appeared in over 40 stage productions, aside from film/television/radio work. This year, he has performed in the one-man show, Bully! An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt, as Feldzieg in The Drowsy Chaperone, Tom, Leslie, and Phyllis in Sylvia (VT Stage), and Treat in Orphans at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, a venue that he co-founded. Favorite roles: Teach (American Buffalo); Prospero (The Tempest); Pozzo (Waiting for Godot [VT Stage]); Arthur Goldman (The Man in the Glass Booth); and Johnny Pateen (The Cripple of Inishmaan). Mr. Alexander has taught acting and dialect since 1996, and is a member of both SAG and Actors' Equity. He is glad to return to VT Stage for this, his seventh production, and to be with old and new friends in the cast and production team. *Actor appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
Kathryn Blume (Sylvia)
is an actor, writer, yoga teacher, wedding officiant, public speaker, climate activist, and longtime Artistic Associate with Vermont Stage Company. VT Stage productions include Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus, Midwives, A Streetcar Named Desire, Waiting For Godot, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Vanya/Vermont, Sylvia, and a whole bunch of Winter Tales. Look for her new, as-yet-to-be-named solo show this spring.
Stephen Bradbury (Greg)
Mr. Bradbury mostly does new plays around the country.
Melissa Lourie (Kate)
has been an equity and now a former equity actor for quite a long time. She lives in Middlebury with her wonderful husband Peter and their two cats. (The kids have left the nest and the dogs have passed on). Melissa teaches acting part time at UVM, is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and is the Artistic Director of the Middlebury Actors Workshop.
A. R. Gurney (Playwright)
Scenes from American Life, Children, The Dining Room, The Middle Ages, Richard Cory, The Golden Age, What I Did Last Summer, The Wayside Motor Inn, Sweet Sue, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, The Snow Ball (adapted from his novel), The Old Boy, The Fourth Wall, Later Life, A Cheever Evening, Sylvia, Overtime, Let's Do It (A Cole Porter Musical), Labor Day, Far East, Darlene and the Guest Lecturer, Ancestral Voices. Opera: wrote libretto for Strawberry Fields, with music by Michael Torke, part of the Central Park Opera trilogy presented by the New York City Opera in the Fall of 1999. Novels: "The Gospel According to Joe," "Entertaining Strangers," and "The Snow Ball." Awards: Drama Desk, N.E.A., Rockefeller Foundation, New England Theatre Conference, Lucille Lortel, American Association of Community Theatres, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Honorary degrees: Williams College and Buffalo State University. Gurney was on the faculty of M.I.T. until 1996. He is the husband of one, father of four, and grandfather of six.
Mark Nash (Director)
is proud to have served for 11 years as artistic director of Vermont Stage Company. He is currently catching up on his rest.
Joel Abbott (Sound Designer)
is happy to be making noise in FlynnSpace once again. Vermont credits include Underneath the Lintel, The Glass Menagerie, Cloud Nine, Shipwrecked, Souvenir, Opus, Prelude To A Kiss, Well, Always Patsy Cline, Blithe Spirit, Around the World in 80 Days, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Dames at Sea. He recently returned from a four month tour as musical director with The Second City, performing sketch and improv comedy shows. Prior to moving to Vermont, Joel was a member of the improv comedy ensemble with Dad's Garage Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. This is Joel's eleventh show with Vermont Stage Company. Special thanks to Mark Nash for everything.
Lauren Glover (Lighting Designer)
Lauren is so excited to be working with Vermont Stage Company again! Past productions include Lighting Designer for Sylvia, Underneath the Lintel (Vermont Stage Company);The Music Man (HC Summer Theatre), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Metro Stage Company); Anything Goes (Winthrop Players); The Sea Gull, The Festival of One Acts, and The Last Five Years (University of Vermont). Thanks to my supportive family, as well as John Forbes and Vermont Stage for this opportunity. As always to AM, TS, and GB: my heart, soul, and spirit.
Tobin Jordan (Crew)
is happy to be working with VSC for the first time! She is an actor and Jill-of-all-trades having a diverse background in many types of art and performance. Most notably she was the Assistant Stage Manager for Oldcastle Theatre Company's 38th and 39th season, assisting Dangerous Obsession, Leading Ladies, A Song for My Father, Awake and Sing!, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Third, and Trying. She appeared in Hubbard Hall's Summer Shakespeare Tour as Bianca in Taming of the Shrew. Recently, she has been assisting Off Center with its productions, including Orphans. Tobin would like to thank the bohemian community for its support, and of course her family friends.
Jamien Lundy Forrest (Stage Manager)
Jamien is thrilled to return for another season with Vermont Stage Company. Previous VT Stage stage management credits include Sylvia, Underneath the Lintel, Oliver Twist, Winter Tales, Quilters, and Vanya/Vermont. While living in New York City, Jamien worked as the full time Technical Associate for Lincoln Center Institute, and stage managed The Gazillion Bubble Show off Broadway. She has also designed lights for Wallis Knot Productions and New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. A 2001 UVM Theatre graduate, Jamien is happy to be back in Burlington with her husband and little boy.
Jeff Modereger (Scenic Designer)
is currently chair of the UVM Department of Theatre; 2012 marks Jeff's nineteenth year at UVM and tenth as chair. With 400 professional productions to his credits, his work as scenic designer/painter has been seen across the country in regional theatres, operas, national and international tours, educational institutions, as well as Broadway and Off-Broadway and the silver screen. Jeff is currently represented by the National Holocaust Museum's exhibit: Remember the Children: Daniel's Story. Jeff is a proud to be an original family member of the Vermont Stage Company: The Drawer Boy, Sylvia, Proof, Art, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Last Station, The Tempest, Amadeus, Glass Menagerie, Jacques Brel..., I Am My Own Wife, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Inspecting Carol, Souvenir and My Ohio. Jeff was also scenic artist for Opus, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, and Sylvia.
Ellen O'Brien (Assistant Stage Manager)
Ellen is delighted to be working on her sixth VT Stage show. As a teenager, she studied dance at the Banff School of Fine Arts, then went on to graduate from Colby College with a BA. She danced with the University of Iowa Dance Company until she attended dental school and graduated with a DDS. Since then she has been dividing her time between family, dentistry, and the performing arts. Favorite past theater endeavors include Lyric Theater's South Pacific, Liz Lerman's Hallelujah Project, Circle in the Square Theater School's summer musical theater program and cabaret, and Bill Reed Voice Studio's summer musical theater intensives and cabarets. Ellen has choreographed and taught dance at schools in Vermont and for the VSA Arts program. She's currently a member of VSA's Awareness Theater Company. Ellen thanks Cristina Alicea for this great opportunity. Thanks Tim, Alice, George, and James, for your love and support.
Catherine Vigne (Costume Designer)
is from Monkton, Vermont. She has worked on many shows in many theaters, including the Goodspeed Opera House, North Shore Music Theater, and the Breadloaf School of English. Her previous designs include the Waterbury Festival Players 2009 season, No End of Blame (PTP/NYC), The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem, In the Blood, In a Pig's Valise, Vampire (Middlebury College), and associate design for The Bewitched (Middlebury College). She is excited to be working with Vermont Stage again, after designing costumes for My Ohio and last season's Sylvia.
Sue Wade (Props Coordinator)
is, as always, delighted to be working with Vermont Stage once again. Knowing that she has to find many bushels of apples and a full-sized yew tree gives her a reason to get up on a cold morning.