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Cast
photo courtesy of Denver Center
Theatre Company
Jacqueline Antaramian
(Leah)
New York Theatre credits include: Wrong Mountain,
Pride's Crossing (Lincoln Center), and The Wild Duck
(Bulldog Theatre Co.). She spent eight seasons with The Denver
Center Theatre Company, and has worked at several other regional
theatres including San Diego's The Old Globe. In Los Angeles,
she performed in the critically acclaimed Tamara. Among
her other theatrical credits: The Rose Tatoo, Arcadia, Desire
under the Elms, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Tartuffe, Dancing
at Lughnasa, The Scarlet Letter, Life is a Dream, Company, Blood
Wedding, Man of the Moment, and the title roles in Miss
Julie, Candida, and Hedda Gabler. Lsst summer she performed
in the sequel to The Immigrant, The Legacy. Film and TV:
The Siege, Law and Order.
Walter Charles
(Milton)
made his Broadway debut on Christmas Eve,
1973 in Grease. Subsequent appearances include Leonard
Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Sweeney Todd,
Cats, Me & My Girl and Aspects of Love.
His most recent New York appearances have been as Scrooge
in Alan Menken's A Christmas Carol at the Paramount Theatre
at Madison Garden, in Kiss Me Kate, and co-starring with
Tyne Daly in the City Center Encores production Call Me
Madam. He co-starred with Angela Lansbury In Sweeney Todd,
and won the Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
in a Musical for his stunning performance as Albin/Zaza in the
original San Francisco and Los Angeles productions of La Cage
Aux Follies, a success he repeated at the Palace Theatre on
Broadway for 18 months. Most recently he co-starred with Diahann
Carroll in the Canadian production of Sunset Boulevard,
garnering a Best Supporting Actor nomination in Vancouver.
This past year he was featured in the 1998 Pulitzer Prize Winning
play Wit at the Union Square Theatre. Television audiences
have seen him guest star in Cagney & Lacey, Kate
& Allie, the 1981 Tony Awards, the 1983 Grammy Awards,
the RKO-Nederlander production of Sweeney Todd for Great
Performances on PBS, and most recently, he was busy raising the
dead on All My Children as Dr. Silbert.
Adam Heller (Haskell)
Mr. Heller last appeared in Denver as the relentless
ship owner J. Bruce Ismay in the National Tour of Titanic
at the Buell Theatre. His Broadway credits include Ed Kleban in
A Class Act, Labisse in Victor/Victoria and Thenardier
in Les Miserables. Off Broadway he appeared as Charley
Kringas in the York Theater Co revival of Sondheim and Furth's
Merrily We Roll Along. His recent regional credits include
Gabe in Dinner With Friends at the Coconut Grove Playhouse,
Yvan in Art at Hartford Theatreworks and Morris Brummel
in No Way to Treat a Lady at the Barrington Stage Company.
Mr. Heller played Mendel in Graciela Daniele's groundbreaking
production of Falsettos at Hartford Stage, and later toured
in James Lapine's Tony Award-winning version. He played Al Jolson
in Anne Bogart's American Vaudeville at Houston's Alley
Theatre. Mr. Heller has appeared on several episodes of ìLaw
& Order,î and on HBO's ìOzî directed by
Kathy Bates. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Cass Morgan (Ima)
is an actress and writer. Pump Boys and
Dinettes, which she co-wrote and starred in on Broadway,
was nominated for a Tony Award in 1982. Over the last few years
she has acted in Playwrights Horizons award winning productions
of Violet (cast album) and Floyd Collins (cast album).
Among her other many New York Acting credits are Beauty and
the Beast, The Human Comedy, Hair, Merrily We Roll Along, (cast
album), Inside Out (cast album), La Boheme, The Knife,
Another Paradise and countless workshops and staged readings
of developing projects. This past season she was featured on
Broadway in Paul Simon's highly controversial Capeman (cast
album). Her regional favorites include Children of Eden
(American premier), Das Barbeque, 1776, Snapshots
and Diamond Studs. True Home, her autobiographical
three-person musical is being produced by Dodger Productions this
coming season. She wrote the book and has collaborated on the
score with Steven M. Alper, David Buchman, Randy Courts and Mark
St. Germain, Jack Herrick, Jeannie Tesori and Stephen Schwartz.
Cass is on the Board of Directors of The New Harmony Project,
an annual writers conference that searches out and celebrates
writers and their films, plays and musicals that explore the triumph
of the human spirit.
Gabriella Cavallero (Ima, Leah
understudy)
Ms. Cavallero is happy to
return for her 11th season with the Denver Center. Most recently
she appeared as Bunny Savage in Inna
Beginning, Dame Claude in
The Miser,
and Mrs. Cratchit and Wife of Christmas Past in past seasons of
A Christmas Carol.
Other DCTC credits include Life
is a Dream, Galileo, Man of the Moment, Romeo and Juliet, Stories,
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Rose Tattoo and the tours of Fresh
Paint and Where
I Live. She has worked at the
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and toured nationally with New York's
National Theatre of the Performing Arts. Ms. Cavallero has narrated
nearly two hundred books for the Library of Congress' National
Library Service and teaches acting at the University of Colorado
at Denver. She holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.
Chad Henry (Milton understudy)
Mr. Henry's DCTC appearances include Much Ado
About Nothing, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Master Class, Treasure
Island, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Comedy of Errors, Life
With Father, Don Quixote, Guys & Dolls and Man of La
Mancha. In Seattle, he has appeared at the Seattle Repertory
Theatre, Seattle's ACT, Intiman Theatre, The Empty Space Theatre,
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, Seattle Opera, and Tacoma Actors Guild.
Mr. Henry's plays and musicals have been produced world-wide,
including: the off-Broadway hit Angry Housewives; several
popular musicals commissioned by nationally-acclaimed Seattle
Children's Theater, The Empty Space Theatre and ACT; and adaptations
of A Christmas Carol and A Doll's House. His musical
Labor of Love toured throughout Japan, the US, and was selected
for performance at the Olympics Arts Festival in Barcelona. His
novel, Dogbreath Victorious,was published last spring by
Holiday House in New York.
Kelly Walters (Haskell understudy)
Mr. Walters' Broadway credits include the title
role in Candide (directed by Harold Prince), the Ringmaster
in Barnum, a fat clown in Grind, and Loby in
The Visit with Jane Alexander. Off-Broadway he played Trinculo
in Julie Taymor's The Tempest (also on PBS) and Grumio
in The Taming of the Shrew. A graduate of the Professional
Actor's Training Program at the University of Washington at Seattle,
Mr. Walters has performed and directed in regional theatres across
the country. Favorite roles include Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet,
Sganarelle in Don Juan, Weasel in T-Bone and Weasel,
and Cootie in Moonchildren.
Production
Rick Barbour (production
manager)
In his fifth season at the
Denver Center Theatre Company, Mr. Barbour's responsibilities
include management of the planning, scheduling, coordination and
execution of all DCTC productions. Prior to joining the DCTC,
he worked as an actor, director and acting instructor at a variety
of regional theatres and training programs across the country.
Don Darnutzer (lighting
designer)
Mr. Darnutzer's previous DCTC design credits include
Inna Beginning, The Little Foxes, Much Ado About Nothing, The
Show-Off, Side Man, The Winter's Tale, A Hotel on Marvin Gardens,
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Dream
on Monkey Mountain, A Christmas Carol, Misalliance, Treasure Island,
Macbeth, Peter Pan, One Foot on the Floor, The Comedy of Errors,
Galileo, A Dybbuk, Romeo and Juliet, Someone Who'll Watch Over
Me, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, The Taming of the Shrew, Black
Elk Speaks, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Scarlet Letter, Bon
Voyage, Julius Caesar, The American Clock and Twelfth Night.
Mr. Darnutzer designed the lighting for the Broadway show It
Ain't Nothin' But the Blues and Love, Janis at the
Royal George Theatre in Chicago. He also worked for the Arizona
Theatre Company, Skylight Opera Company, Mark Taper Forum (Los
Angeles), Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, New
Orleans Opera, Intiman Theatre Company (Seattle), A Contemporary
Theatre (Seattle), Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis,
Opera Grand Rapids, Central City Opera, Minnesota Opera Company,
Dayton Ballet, the Alley Theatre (Houston), Arena Stage and The
Shakespeare Theatre (Washington DC). He worked as lighting coordinator
for the national tours of Sugar Babies and Ballet Folklorico
de Mexico.
Christopher C.
Ewing (production stage manager)
Mr. Ewing's DCTC credits include last season's
Denver Center World Premiere and British Premiere Tour of Tantalus.
Previous productions at the Denver Center include The Laramie
Project, A Christmas Carol and Gross Indecency: The Three
Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Elevation of Thieves, Travels With
My Aunt, Treasure Island, Taking Leave, Molly Sweeney,
The Comedy of Errors, Life With Father, Fables, You Never Can
Tell, The Dresser and Appalachian Strings. Since his
graduation from Loretto Heights College in 1981 with a BFA in
Theatre Design/Technology, Mr. Ewing has worked in the Denver
area as a technician and stage manager. He also has stage-managed
for the Colorado Ballet and Denver Center Attractions.
Ralph Funicello
(set designer)
Mr. Funicello is pleased to return to the Denver
Center Theatre Company where he has previously designed the sets
for The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Learned Ladies, Man and
Superman, Don Juan in Hell, Koozy's Piece and Nine Armenians.
He has also designed the scenery for over two hundred productions
of plays throughout the United States and Canada. Mr. Funicello
is an Associate Artist at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and
has worked extensively with the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast
Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre and American Conservatory
Theatre. His work has also been seen on and off Broadway and at
Lincoln Center Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Milwaukee Repertory
Theatre, American Festival Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Berkeley
Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Guthrie
Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Stratford Festival in
Ontario, New York City Opera, and The Houston Grand Opera. Mr.
Funicello's work has been exhibited at the Library and Museum
of the Performing Arts in New York City, the University of San
Diego, San Diego State University, Tiffany & Co. in San Diego,
the Chevron Gallery in San Francisco, The Prague Quadrennial,
The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los
Angeles and the Exhibition of Stage Design in Beijing. He received
The Merritt Award for Excellence In Design and Collaboration,
and his designs have been recognized by the Bay Area Theatre Critics'
Circle, the L.A. Drama Critics' Circle, Dramalogue Magazine,
Backstage West, and the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Mr. Funicello
currently holds the position of Powell Chair in Set Design at
San Diego State University.
David White (sound designer)
Mr. White designed sound for last season's productions
of Pork Pie: A Mythic Jazz Fable, Inna Beginning, Much Ado
About Nothing and Tantalus. Previous DCTC sound design
credits include Give ëEm a Bit of Mystery: Shakespeare
and the Old Tradition, Side Man, The Winter's Tale, A Christmas
Carol, Barrio Babies, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Elevation
of Thieves, Master Class, The Rivals, Picasso at
the Lapin Agile, Macbeth, Life is a Dream, Fables, One Foot on
the Floor, The Comedy of Errors, Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet,
The Last Yankee, Room Service, A Dybbuk, Appalachian Strings,
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, The Taming of the Shrew, Man of
the Moment, Love, Janis, The Scarlet Letter, A Midsummer Night's
Dream and Black Elk Speaks. He also designed sound
for the National Theatre Conservatory productions of Arms and
the Man, The Elephant Man, Twelfth Night and All My Sons.
Other credits include more than 100 productions as the resident
sound designer for PCPA/Solvang Theaterfest. He is a graduate
of Webster University in St. Louis.
Andrew V. Yelusich
(costume designer)
As a resident designer at the DCTC for 17 seasons,
Mr. Yelusich's work includes set and costume designs for Give
ëEm a Bit of Mystery: Shakespeare and the Old Tradition,
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Dream on Monkey
Mountain, Travels With My Aunt, Valley Song, Macbeth, Life is
a Dream, Arcadia, Three Tall Women, Racing Demon, Galileo, Marisol,
Love, Janis, The Scarlet Letter, Bon Voyage, Candida, They Shoot
Horses, Don't They?, Arsenic and Old Lace, Julius Caesar, The
Rose Tattoo, Saint Joan and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
His many DCTC costume design credits include Uncle Vanya, The
Little Foxes, Much Ado About Nothing, 1933, The Cripple of Inishmaan,
The Winter's Tale, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Tempest, The
Last Night of Ballyhoo, Life With Father, A Christmas Carol, Molly
Sweeney, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and
Black Elk Speaks (nominated for an L.A. Drama Critics Circle
Award). He also worked as set designer on The Servant
of Two Masters, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues and
A Dybbuk. His work has appeared at theatres throughout the
country including Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory
Theatre, The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Old Globe Theatre
in San Diego, The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC and A Contemporary
Theatre in Seattle.
Randal Myler
(director)
Mr. Myler was nominated for a 1999 TONY AWARD
(Best New Book of a Musical) for the hit Broadway show It Ain't
Nothin' But the Blues (Tony Award nominee for Best Musical
/ Drama Desk Award nominee for Best Musical Revue), which he co-authored
and directed at both the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center
and Broadway's Ambassador Theatre. He has guest directed throughout
the country, including both the Kennedy Center and Arena Stage
in Washington DC; the New Victory Theatre, B.B. King's and Eric
Nederlander's Village Theatre in New York City; the Mark Taper
Forum and the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles; the Actors Theatre
of Louisville; The Cleveland Play House; the Royal George Theatre
in Chicago; the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; the Old Globe Theatre
in San Diego; the Virginia Stage Company; the Meadowbrook Theatre
in Detroit; the Cincinnati Playhouse; the Bay Street Theatre in
Sag Harbor and many others. A 17-season veteran of the Denver
Center Theatre Company, his most recent writing and directing
projects include 1933, Touch the Names: Letters to the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial (World Premiere at the Cleveland Play House)
and Love, Janis (World Premiere at the Denver Center and
currently off-Broadway). He co-wrote and directed the 1985 Denver
Center World Premiere of The Immigrant: A Hamilton County Album,
the play on which the new musical is based. Mr. Myler also worked
closely with the Grand Ol' Opry's production of Lost Highway,
his musical based on the life of Hank Williams Sr. (which played
for two years at Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium). His plays
have published by Broadway Play Publishing, Dramatic Publishing
and Samuel French.
Kimberly Grigsby
(musical director/pianist)
Ms. Grigsby is making her Denver Center debut as
Music Director of The Immigrant. She served as Music Director
for the Broadway productions of You're a Good Man, Charlie
Brown and Twelfth Night (music by Jeanine Tesori).
She is currently the conductor for the Broadway production of
The Full Monty (music by David Yazbek). In regional theatre
her credits include Floyd Collins (music by Adam Guettel)
at the Signature Theatre, and The First Picture Show (music
by Jeanine Tesori) at the Mark Taper Forum. Other credits include
O Pioneers! (music by Kim Sherman), Love's Fire (music
by Adam Guettel), Honk! (music by George Stiles), Telaio:
Desdemona (by Susan Botti), Boxcar Children (music
by Kim Sherman), Black Beauty (music by Dan Messe),
Fools Rush In (music by Steve Marzullo). Ms. Grigsby's recordings
include You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown for RCA Victor
and Twelfth Night for Resmiranda. She holds degrees from
Southern Methodist University and Manhattan School of Music.
Creative
Steven M. Alper
(music) [website]
Has been a musical director and/or conductor for: Annie
2 and Arthur (Goodspeed Opera House), Pageant
(The Blue Angel), Johnny Pye (George St. Playhouse and
Lambs Theater), Up Against It (The Public Theater), Gifts
of the Magi (Lambs Theater), Possessed - The Dracula Musical
(George St. Playhouse), Tales of Tinseltown (Musical Theater
Works and George St. Playhouse), Starting Here, Starting Now
(Main St. Theater), among many others. Vocal arranger for many
of the above. Arranger/orchestrator for many of the above as well
as: Godspell (1988 off-Broadway revival, Lambs Theater
-- also musical director/conductor), The "No-Frills"
Revue (Musical Theater Works and The Cherry Lane), The
Hits and the Ms.'s (Rainbow and Stars -- also musical director),
The Summer Winds (The Naked Angels -- in which I also played
the on-stage pianist), Guilt Without Sex (Marilyn Sokol's
one-woman show), among many others. He has done big band arrangements,
vocal group arrangements, choral arrangements, orchestral arrangements.
I have coached hundreds of performers: singers and musicians.
Taught piano, theory, history of music, vocal techniques, repertoire,
and audition techniques around the country. Appeared as computer
music consultant on many shows and several feature films. Copyist
for Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theater, and film. Co-wrote
manuals for music software, wrote about the joys of the Apple
Macintosh computer, and wrote Next!:
Auditioning for the Musical Theatre (published by Heinemann
Books). Wrote dozens of incidental scores for plays, short films
and TV: Action Painting (American Theater of Actors), Vatzlav
(National Theater of Woodbee), The Disposal (Jan Hus
Theater), Faces of God (Artpark), The Wake-up Call
(Award winning short film), among others. Has written (with Karen
deMauro and the students of participating schools) dozens of children's
musicals. Composed a number of musicals with Sarah
Knapp as bookwriter/lyricist, including The
Library, The Audition,
C'est la vie, Rappaccini's
Daughter, Chamberlain: A Civil
War Romance, and Me Again. He is a member of the
Dramatist Guild.
Mark Harelik
(book) [website]
Is a writer and actor, a native Texan who grew up
in the only Jewish family in the small town of Hamilton in central
Texas, where his two biographical plays The Immigrant and
The Legacy take place. In 1991, The Immigrant, a
telling of his Jewish grandparent's immigration to rural Texas
and their first 30 years of life there, was the most widely produced
play in the country. In the immediately preceding and following
years, it was among the most widely produced. It has been seen
at nearly every major theater in the country, among them: The
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, The Westwood Playhouse in Los
Angeles, Theater Forty in Los Angeles, A.C.T. in San Francisco,
The Denver Center Theater Co., The Alley Theater in Houston, and
well over a hundred more theaters in cities and towns large and
small. The Legacy, an autobiographical sequel to
The Immigrant, has been produced in Seattle and
San Diego and most recently by the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.
Lost Highway, a biographical musical about the life
of the country singer Hank Williams has been produced by the Mark
Taper Forum, The Old Globe Theater , the Denver Center Theater
Co., and the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville. Mr. Harelik's producing
partners have been The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Gordon
Davidson, Artistic Director; The Old Globe Theater in San Diego,
Jack O'Brien, Artistic Director; and The Denver Center Theater
Company, Donovan Marley, Artistic Director.
Sarah Knapp
(lyrics) [website]
Received a commissioning grant from Maine State Music
Theater and the National Alliance of Musical Theatre Producers
for the writing of Chamberlain, A Civil
War Romance, which premiered at Maine State in the summer
of 1996. Her musical, The Library,
was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts production grant
in 1993 and was produced at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts and at
Stamford Theatre Works (Connecticut). Both Chamberlain and
The Library were selected for development at the prestigious
New Harmony Project (Indiana). She is currently at work on a chamber
opera, Rappaccini's Daughter with
music by Steven M. Alper. The Audition,
a music theatre piece, was selected for performance in Manhattan
Class Company's Festival of Short Works (New York City). She recently
provided the lyrics for the highly successful Golden Books
Read-In 1999. She has served on the Opera-Musical Theatre
selection panel for the National Endowment for the Arts-New American
Works.
As a performer, Ms. Knapp has been seen on Broadway in The
Scarlet Pimpernel; off-Broadway: Amnesia in the original Nunsense,
Smoke on the Mountain, "No-Frills" Revue, Godspell,
Gifts of the Magi, Opal, The Wonderful "O". Broadway
workshop: Lily in Jekyll and Hyde. Regionally: Madame Vinard
in Svengali at Asolo and Alley Theatres. Mrs. Ford in Merry
Wives of Windsor, Texas at Cincinnati Playhouse and The Baker's
Wife in Into the Woods and Eliza Doolittle in My Fair
Lady at Maine State Music Theatre. Two Annie 2's: Kennedy
Center, and then as Grace at Goodspeed. European tour: Eleanor
in Richard Foreman's Africanis Instructus. Recordings:
Gifts of the Magi, Scarlet Pimpernel, and Harold Arlen/Vernon
Duke Revisited, No. 2. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild.
Producers
Denver Center Theatre
Company [website]
The Denver Center Theatre Company premiered on
New Year's Eve 1979, when Founding Artistic Director, Edward Payson
Call opened the newly-completed Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex
with the Company's first production: Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian
Chalk Circle.
In 1984, Donovan Marley succeeded Call. He has led the company
ever since with a commitment to play a leading role in the cultural
life of the Rocky Mountain West and to contribute to theatrical
legacy of the country by developing new plays and new artists
to share with theatres nationwide.
In its first 22 seasons, the Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC)
mounted 295 productions selected from a mix of the world's classics,
revivals of landmark American plays, the rediscovery of plays
that had dropped out of the American repertoire, and world premieres.
Many of the Company's premieres have been widely translated, published
and produced - not only in this country, but also in Europe and
Asia.
While extending the Company's reach well beyond Colorado, the
fundamentals of its mission remain unchanged - to create, nurture
and develop a resident company in which artists, teachers, artisans,
technicians and managers have time to learn each other's gifts,
ideas, language, processes and passions. The members of this resident
ensemble have made long-term commitments to the ensemble's artistic
development and to the development of new artists and new audiences.
Outreach and education are the responsibility of the company's
education department. Artist training is provided through The
National Theatre Conservatory that prepares young actors for professional
careers in theatre, film and television. The Denver Center Theatre
Academy provides educational programs designed to enhance the
audience experience for nearly 70,000 students annually. These
programs include tours to Colorado schools, special student performances
by the resident company and classes for students from age three
through adulthood who wish to study the arts and crafts of the
theatre in a professional setting.
The primary focus, however, remains on the work of the resident
company and the rich season of plays it delivers each year. There
is no substitute for the challenge and completeness of that experience
and the level of excellence it tirelessly strives to achieve.
Donovan Marley
(Artistic Director, Denver Center Theatre Company)
Artistic Director of the Denver Center Theatre
Company since 1984, Donovan Marley has generated 18 eclectic seasons
of theatre productions that command a growing audience and international
attention. In 1998 he accepted the Tony Award for Outstanding
Regional Theatre on behalf of the company.
Central to the development of the Company is a shared body of
work created over a period of many years that encourages long-term
multi-production relationships among directors and designers,
actors and directors and members of the acting ensemble.
Mr. Marley has directed more than 20 Theatre Company productions,
including the world premiere of Black Elk Speaks (also
at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum and a Cantonese version in Hong
Kong), King Lear, South Pacific, A Lie of the Mind, Miss Julie,
Desire Under the Elms (which toured Japan) and numerous world
premieres.
Mr. Marley created PrimaFacie in 1985 to develop new work by established
and emerging playwrights. Supported for 17 years by U S WEST,
Mr. Marley guided the evolution of scores of new theatre projects--from
playwright commissions through workshops and public readings,
to full productions.
Mr. Marley founded the Theatre Company's first education wing,
the National Theatre Conservatory, in 1984. This three-year program
prepares young artists for the rigors of professional life in
an unique program that combines skills classes, intensive studio
work, and participation in professional productions under the
mentorship of working artists. The eight members of each class
are awarded full tuition scholarships and an additional living
expense stipend. Qualified graduates are awarded a Master of Fine
Arts degree and are introduced to agents and casting directors
in a showcase production presented in New York. NTC students
complete all requirements for membership in Actors' Equity Association
and are not encumbered by school-related debt during their three
years of graduate study.
Mr. Marley established a second educational wing, the Denver Center
Theatre Academy, in 1991; it flourishes as a community school
for children and adults in a professional setting.
A major figure in California theatre for 20 years, Mr. Marley
left his post as founder and Producing Director of the Pacific
Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria (PCPA/Solvang
Theaterfest) to accept his appointment in Denver.
