Winter Tales Cast & Crew
Kathryn Blume (Ensemble)
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.
Patti Casey (Ensemble)
Native Vermonter Patti Casey has been called "...the voice of Vermont contemporary music" by the Times Argus. With a voice that's strong and sweet, a catalog of timeless songs, and a history of penning classics that have found their way into the folk music world across the United States, Patti has become the vocal backbone for many of our region's finest musical productions. Her list of awards includes Kerrville Folk Festival Songwriting Contest winner, Chris Austin Song Writing Contest winner, South Florida Folk Festival Songwriting Competition finalist, A Prairie Home Companion "Talent From Towns Under 2000" winner, and Telluride Songwriting Competition Finalist. Patti has written and directed music for Burlington's Vermont Stage Company, and has produced 5 independent recordings of her music, 3 of which landed in the Seven Days Top Ten Recordings of the Year. Her 2010 release "The Heart of a Waiting Boy" was named Top Country Album of 2010 by the Times Argus/Rutland Herald and was the fourth most-played album in the worldwide folk circuit for the month of February 2011 (FolkDJ Radio). She provided soundtrack music for Pasture Productions' award-winning independent film "The Summer of Walter Hacks," and for the independent documentary film "Brush and Pen: Artists and Writers of the White Mountains." She tours nationally with Vermont's venerable folk band The Woods Tea Co., and lives in central Vermont. http://www.patticasey.com/
Chris Caswell (Ensemble)
is a playwright and actress celebrating her 6th year in this wonderful city. She's directing Seth Jarvis' new play ICON to be produced at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts this March (fb: ICON The Play). With VSC, she performed in Oliver Twist, Shipwrecked!, and Well; and is really excited to be in the upcoming production of As You Like It. This is her third time as a Winter Tales reader. Chris co-founded Heat & Hot Water Productions (heatandhotwater.com) with whom she creates and performs.
Liz Gilbert (Ensemble)
has been onstage since age 5. Involved in proffessional and community theater, Liz has worked with local Vermont companies such as Lost Nation Theater, Vermont Stage Company, and Green Candle Theater as well as having performed in numerous plays with the Montpelier Theater Guild and Stage 32. Favorite roles include Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, Rosalee in Maura Campbell's Rosalee Was Here, and two seasons in the ensemble of Winter Tales. Also a singer, Liz has studied musical theater with Bill Reed and Alan Langdon, performed at the Skinner Barn, and sung with the VYO chorus, Young Singers' Chorus of Vermont, and the FlynnArts Show Choir. When she's not at dance class, rehearsal, or running, Liz enjoys just being 16 at home in East Montpelier.
Larry Gleason (Ensemble)
Fourth VSC show. Previously: WINTER TALES 2008, ‘Michael (Astrov) Astor' - VANYA/VERMONT, ‘Dylan Thomas' - A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES. With NYC's Willow Cabin Theater Company: over 35 roles in 25 plays. Broadway: WILDER, WILDER, WILDER (1993 Tony Award Nomination Best Revival), Off-Broadway: CSC Rep, Playwrights Horizon, La Mama, and Pearl Theater. Film: ‘Tim' in UNFAITHFUL (w/ Richard Gere, Diane Lane). On faculty, Circle In The Square on Broadway, NYC for Shakespearean Text and Text Analysis. Privately: coaches actors in classical and contemporary monologue and audition preparation. Directing credits include A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES, BUS RILEY AND CO.-FIVE ONE-ACTS BY WILLIAM INGE and ART. http://www.larrygleason.com
Mark Nash (Ensemble)
is proud to have served for 11 years as artistic director of Vermont Stage Company. He is currently catching up on his rest.
Paul Schnabel (Ensemble)
is a Burlington based actor who has been working on stage and screen for over 30 years. A company member of the internationally acclaimed and award winning Riot Group, he has spent much of the last seven years touring throughout the US and Europe, including several extended runs in London, New York, and San Francisco. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild with numerous feature film credits. Mr. Schnabel would like to thank Vermont Stage Company for the opportunity to work in his home town on this excellent production.
Pete Sutherland (Ensemble)
a native Vermonter, has toured nationally and internationally and is also a sought-after record producer, roots-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, collage artist, teacher, and more. A Middlebury College Affiliate Artist, Pete continues to expand the boundaries of his various adopted instrumental languages while sharing them with an ever-widening circle of students of all ages. Recently he completed work on the soundtrack of the George Woodard film The Summer of Walter Hacks, and is also featured as an author for the first time in this edition of Winter Tales.
John B. Forbes (Lighting Design Supervisor)
has previously designed the lighting for Photograph 51, Oliver Twist, The Glass Menagerie, Opus, My Ohio, King Lear, Inspecting Carol, Woody Guthrie's American Song, True West, Copenhagen, The Foreigner and The Drawer Boy at Vermont Stage Company. In addition he has designed the lighting for productions at the Old Globe Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the Center Repertory Company, and the Ensemble Theatre Company, all in California. He has also designed lighting for Theatre Aspen in Colorado; the Riverside Shakespeare Company and Theatre Matrix in New York; the Arizona Theatre Company, and Saint Michael's Playhouse, the Big APE Dance Company and Lost Nation Theatre in Vermont. He is the winner of three L. A. Dramalogue awards for his designs at the Old Globe Theatre and three Shelley Awards for his designs with the Center Repertory Company. He is the faculty lighting designer at the University of Vermont in the Department of Theatre, and his lighting design for UVM's production of Metamorphoses was displayed in the Gallery Exhibit at the World Stage Design Exhibition in Toronto. He has also taught at San Diego State University and the University of San Diego, and while at U.S.D., he also managed Shiley Theatre. In that capacity he served as the technical liaison between the University and the Presidential Debate Commission for the final Presidential Debate of 1996 held there.
Jennifer Moulton (Stage Manager)
is thrilled to be working on My Ohio, her 13th production with VSC. Jen
graduated from the University of Vermont in '06 with a degree in Theatre.
She then spent the 2006/2007 season working as the Stage Management
Apprentice at Round House Theatre in Bethesda MD. Jen would like to thank
Mark, Lisa and the cast for a great show, her family for their constant
support, and Evan for always believing in her, much love!
Emily Ginter (Assistant Stage Manager)
has recently returned to her home state after teaching middle school in New York City for the past three years. She most recently worked as an Assistant Stage Manager of VSC's production of Well . Emily graduated from the University of Vermont in 2005 with a BA in theatre. There, she was involved in several main stage and student directed productions as an actor, stage manager, and director. She was also the 2004 recipient of the Edward J. Feidner award for her accomplishments in multiple areas of theatre and received the Outstanding Senior in Theatre departmental award in 2005. Her favorite credits from UVM include The Crucible , Antigone , A Midsummer Night's Dream , and The Ugly Duckling.