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Media Gallery:
2005-2006 Season:
Hank Williams: Lost Highway Cast Biographies:
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Stephen G. Anthony (Hoss) is making his ATC debut. He originated the role of Hoss in the acclaimed New York production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway. Other musical credits include Sanders Family Christmas, Pump Boys & Dinettes, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and James Joyce’s The Dead. Dramatic roles include McMurphy in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Henry in The Real Thing, Peter in The Pavilion, and Orlando in As You Like It. Film and TV credits include Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (with Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, and Shirley MacLaine); Mission of the Shark (with Stacy Keach, Richard Thomas, and David Caruso); B.L. Stryker (with Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, and Rita Moreno); and several episodes of Miami Vice. Mr. Anthony has numerous regional and national commercials to his credit, and has produced and/or starred in a number of independent films.
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Mississippi Charles Bevel (Tee-Tot) returns to ATC where he was last seen in It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. He is a multimedia artist who does just as well with poetry, visual art, writing and lecturing as he does with singing and acting. His first stage appearance came in 1986 with the East Cleveland Community Theatre in Ohio. He later worked at Cleveland’s Karamu House, a well-known training ground for some of America’s finest black actors. At Karamu, he performed major roles in several productions including August Wilson’s Piano Lesson and Samm-Art Williams’ Home. He made his professional theatre debut in 1994 with the Denver Center Theatre Company where he co-authored and performed in the world premier of It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues – which was nominated for four Tony Awards in Broadway’s 1999 season. His regional theatre credits include I Am a Man, Spunk, Home, Let Me Live, Fire on the Mountain and Stories About the Old Days.
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Margaret Bowman (Mama Lilly) is making her ATC debut. Her association with the “dynamic duo” of Dan Wheetman and Randy Myler began in 1996 at the home of country music, Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, where she played Mama Lilly for two seasons in Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, continuing the role at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, on the national tour, The Cleveland Play House and off-Broadway’s Manhattan Ensemble and Little Shubert Theatres. Her regional theatre credits include Fire on the Mountain (Denver Center Theatre Company and Barter Theatre), Always Patsy Cline, Hair, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Box Church (Stages Repertory Company). Her film and TV credits include Waiting for Guffman, Leap of Faith, A Perfect World, The Good Old Boys, Hard Promises, As the World Turns, Santa Barbara and the mini-series A Woman of Independent Means, among others.
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Patricia Dalen (The Waitress) is making her ATC debut. She appeared on Broadway in the Tony-nominated Indiscretions, with Kathleen Turner and Jude Law. Also on Broadway, she understudied in Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, directed by Gary Sinise. Off-Broadway credits include leading roles in The Country Wife, The Miser, The Winter’s Tale, Life is a Dream and When Ladies Battle at the Pearl Theatre. Regionally she has appeared at Portland Stage Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pioneer Theatre Company, Florida Stage, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center Theatre Company, TheatreVirginia, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Studio Arena, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Capitol Repertory Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, Arvada Center and Utah Shakespearean Festival, among others. Her TV and film credits include Law & Order: Criminal Intent, As the World Turns, All My Children, Guiding Light and various independent features. Ms. Dalen holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.
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H. Drew Perkins (Leon “Loudmouth”) returns to ATC where he was last seen in It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. He played Leon in The Cleveland Play House production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway and reprised the role in New York at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater and the Little Shubert Theatre. He was music director/performer for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and TheatreVirginia productions of Fair and Tender Ladies, and ASF commissioned him to score the music for Truman Capote’s Holiday Memories. He was musical director for the Nashville Country Showcase and toured nationally with Always, Patsy Cline and Honky Tonk Angels. He has performed with the Riverside and Columbia Symphony Orchestras in New York and was leader of the western swing band Peach Fish Pie, which also toured with Minnie Pearl. Mr. Perkins has opened for Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, and James Brown, and has toured in Europe, Africa and Asia. He played fiddle and lead guitar in Honky Tonk Heroes and was the performing host for the 2002 Medora Musical in North Dakota.
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Mike Regan (Fred “Pap” Rose) is making his ATC debut. His regional theatre credits include Cider House Rules (Mark Taper Forum), True West (Seattle Repertory Theatre), Touch the Names (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Fire on the Mountain (Manhattan Ensemble Theater) and over 20 productions at Denver Center Theatre Company. His film and TV credits include Point Break, Designing Women, Dallas, Days of Our Lives and many others. Mr. Regan holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.
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Regan Southard (Audrey Williams) is making her ATC debut. She is a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. Her theatre credits include The Cowboy, The Indian and the Fervent Feminist, A Streetcar Named Desire, Billy Liar, Sally and Marsha and House of Blue Leaves. On TV and film she has been seen in Obsession, A Piece of Mind, Rave On, Windows, Surfacing, The Waystation: Prelude, Johnny Zero, and As the World Turns. Ms. Southard is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
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Myk Watford (Jimmy “Burrhead”) played Burrhead in the award-winning New York production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway. He was last seen in Manhattan Theatre Club’s Five By Tenn, directed by Michael Kahn, where he had the honor to originate the role of Karl in Tennessee Williams’ recently discovered play And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens. His Broadway credits include Shane Mungitt in Take Me Out and The Gathering. Other New York credits include Touch the Names, The Glory of Living (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman) Anardarko, Pastures of Plenty, Robbers, Hamlet, and Poor Fellas. His regional credits include The Emancipation of Valet De Chambre, The Infinite Regress of Human Vanity, Henry IV I&II, The School for Scandal, The Taming of the Shrew, Loves Labours Lost, Brilliant Traces, Henry V, and The Grapes of Wrath. His television credits include The Sopranos, Law & Order S.V.U., Law & Order; Criminal Intent, Rescue Me, Third Watch, Hack, Deadline, Grapevine, Guiding Light, All My Children and As the World Turns. Film credits include The Hoax, The Exonerated, Screen Door Jesus, Spider-Man, Perfect Partner, Marcie X, Forever Mine, and Black Eyed Peas and Mayonnaise. Mr. Watford plays guitar and sings for the subversive rock band Utah Mafia.
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Russ Wever (Shag) a featured performer at the annual International Steel Guitar Convention, celebrates his ‘dozenth’ year in musical theatre by resuming his role as Shag, the steel-guitarist that puts the ‘moan’ and ‘cry’ into Hank Williams’ music. Mr. Wever began the role of Shag five years ago on the first national tour of Hank Williams: Lost Highway and since has performed in productions at The Cleveland Play House, Circa ‘21 Playhouse in Rock Island, Illinois and the Manhattan Ensemble Theater and Little Shubert Theatre in New York. Previous to ‘traveling the Lost Highway’, he has appeared in over twenty-five hundred performances of A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline and Patsy!, with actress Gail Bliss, in venues from The Grand Palace in Branson to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto. When not on the musical theatre stage, he enjoys performing at various steel guitar shows and concerts around the country, as well as teaching the art of steel guitar playing.
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Van Zeiler (Hank Williams) played Hank Williams in the Actors Theatre of Louisville production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway and alternated in the role in the original New York production. He played the title role in London’s hit West End production of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, as well as the U.K. and U.S. national tours, where he earned a Jefferson Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical. Other New York City credits include roles at Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, Looking Glass Theatre, CAP21, Transport Group, HERE and Theatre Studio, Inc. Regionally he has worked with New Harmony Theatre, Ordway Center, Princeton Repertory Theatre, Cortland Repertory Theatre and South Carolina Repertory Theatre. His film and TV credits include All My Children, Guiding Light, Tad and Families at War (BBC). Mr. Zeiler has a BA in Drama from the University of Virginia
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The Creative Team
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Randal Myler (Director, co-author) returns to ATC where he co-wrote and directed It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues and directed The Immigrant. He was recently nominated for a 2003 Outer Critic’s Circle Award in the Outstanding Director category for the New York production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway and was a Tony Award nominee (Best Book of a Musical) for It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. He wrote and directed the recent off-Broadway hits Love, Janis and Hank Williams: Lost Highway. He has directed at theatres throughout the country, including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bay Street Theater and many others. His writing and directing projects include co-adapting and directing Touch the Names: Letters to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and directing Union City (with Rosie Perez). In New York City he has also directed at Broadway’s Ambassador Theater, The New Victory Theater, Little Shubert Theatre, Dodger Stages, Promenade Theater, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, B.B. King’s and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Mark Harelik (co-author) is the author of The Immigrant, The Legacy, and book writer for the musical adaptation of The Immigrant. He has appeared in leading roles on the stage for the past twenty-five years in such plays as Cyrano de Bergerac, The Beard of Avon, Be Aggressive, Old Money, The Hollow Lands, Tartuffe, Search and Destroy, Temptation, The Heidi Chronicles, The Cherry Orchard, the musical Elmer Gantry, Arms and the Man, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and his own plays, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, The Immigrant, and The Legacy. He was an original cast member in the current Broadway hit, The Light in the Piazza. His work has been seen at the Mark Taper Forum, Lincoln Center Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, both on and off-Broadway, and with the national tour of The Heidi Chronicles with Amy Irving. On television, he has played recurring roles on Will and Grace, The Four Kings, Wings, Almost Perfect, The Single Guy, Hearts Afire, Boy Meets World and made dozens of guest appearances in Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives, House, CSI:Miami, Star Trek Voyager, Seinfeld, Picket Fences, Veronica’s Closet, Grace Under Fire, The Practice, among many others. On film, he has played leading roles in Election, Eulogy, Jurassic Park III, Barbarians at the Gate, A Gnome Named Gnorm, and Christopher Guest’s upcoming For Your Consideration.
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Dan Wheetman (Musical Director) previously worked at ATC on It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. He is a co-author of “Blues”, which was nominated for four Tony Awards. His plays, Appalachian Strings and Fire on the Mountain, written with director Randal Myler, were performed at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Denver Center Theatre Company, Meadow Brook Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre and the Barter Theatre in Virginia. He received a DramaLogue Award for Musical Direction for Hank Williams: Lost Highway at the Mark Taper Forum and an LA Critics Award for It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues at the Geffen Playhouse. He was the composer and musical director for the stage version of John Irving’s Cider House Rules, directed by Tom Hulce and Jane Jones, at the Mark Taper Forum in LA and the Atlantic Theater Company in New York. He toured and recorded with John Denver, wrote a Christmas song for Kermit the Frog, recorded a 78rpm with R. Crumb and the Good Tone Banjo Boys, played a fiddle duet on television with Itzchak Perlman, and worked as the opening act for Steve Martin. He plays in the band Marley’s Ghost. Their new CD, Spooked, on Sage Arts, was produced by Van Dyke Parks and the cover art was done by master cartoonist, R. Crumb.
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Vicki Smith (Scenic Designer) returns to ATC where she designed Dirty Blonde, Master Class, Last Night at Ballyhoo, Fences, Taking Steps, Matchmaker, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Galileo, The Government Inspector, Fool for Love, Death of a Salesman, and Learned Ladies. She has designed 35 productions for the Denver Center Theatre Company and has also worked for theatres around the country, including, The Cleveland Play House, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theater, ACT Theatre (Seattle), Anchorage Opera, Minnesota Opera, Alley Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and San Jose Repertory Theatre. She received her training at the University of Washington and began her professional career at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she was associate designer for three seasons.
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Robert Blackman (Costume Designer) has worked at most of the major regional theatres on the West Coast. His recent theatrical work includes costume design for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for the reopening of the Geffen Playhouse, the premiere production of David Rambo’s The Lady with All the Answers at The Old Globe, costume design for The Royal Family at the Ahmanson Theatre (Ovation nomination), set and costume design for various productions of Hank Williams: Lost Highway and Love, Janis, set design for The Winter’s Tale at the Denver Center Theatre Company, and costume design for Uncle Vanya at the Geffen Playhouse. He was the costume designer for Star Trek: Enterprise. He won an Emmy Award in 1991-92 for Star Trek: The Next Generation and has received nine nominations (three each for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager). His film work includes ‘night Mother, The Running Man, Stones for Ibarra, Star Trek VII: Generations and Star Trek X: Nemesis.
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Don Darnutzer (Lighting Designer) is delighted to return to ATC where he designed lighting for It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, The Last Night of Ballyhoo and dozens of other productions over the last two decades. He designed lighting for the Tony Award-nominated It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues, which performed at the Ambassador Theatre and at Lincoln Center Theater, and the off-Broadway production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway that appeared at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater and the Little Shubert Theatre. He also designed the off-Broadway musical The Immigrant that performed at the Dodgers Stages Theatre. Mr. Darnutzer has worked for Denver Center Theatre Company, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Mark Taper Forum, B.B. King’s Blues Club, The Shakespeare Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, New Orleans Opera, The Cleveland Play House, Atlanta Opera, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Palm Beach Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera Company, Anchorage Opera, ACT Theatre and San Diego Repertory Theatre.
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Eric Stahlhammer (Sound Designer) joins ATC for the first time for Hank Williams: Lost Highway. At Actors Theatre of Louisville he recently designed Myler’s Love, Janis, a co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. At the Denver Center for the Performing Arts he designed sound for Almost Heaven – Songs and Stories of John Denver, Garbo in My Eyes and Slabtown; Always, Patsy Cline, God’s Country, Twelfth Night, Under Milk Wood, and All in the Timing. Also for the NTC he produced their cast recordings of Jacques Brel, The Fantasticks, and Under Milk Wood. For Eastern Talent Alliance he has designed the national tour of Classical Savion Glover. For Columbia Artists Management he has designed tours of Csardas and Gypsy Spirit, and for Columbia Artists Theatricals he designed sound for AEROS at the Salle Pierre-Mercure, Montreal, and was sound engineer for the national tours of AEROS and The Presidents, starring Rich Little.
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Bruno Ingram (Stage Manager) stage managed Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Anna in the Tropics, Talley’s Folly and The Underpants for ATC. He has worked as a stage manager for The Cleveland Play House and Theatre for a New Audience, on a variety of productions including Company, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Touch the Names, Jerusalem, Art, Cymbeline, and Julius Caesar. Mr. Ingram has also worked at Great Lakes Theatre Festival on six productions including A Christmas Carol and Tom Hanks: Now Playing Center.
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Glenn Bruner (Assistant Stage Manager) is in his ninth season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, Bad Dates, Pride and Prejudice, The Pirates of Penzance, Copenhagen, The Fantasticks, Much Ado About Nothing, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands and the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh, and Over the Moon. A stage manager since 1985, Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, The Pasadena Playhouse, Center Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Maine’s Portland Stage Company and Casa Mañana Musicals in Fort Worth. He was the ASM for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House, and production stage manager for the off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. Mr. Bruner has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and was an announcer for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio.
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Elizabeth Lohr (Assistant Stage Manager) has had a long affiliation with Arizona Theatre Company, serving as stage manager for over 25 productions in both Tucson and Phoenix. She returns to ATC after visiting 59 cities over the last two years touring with Les Miserables. She has also stage managed for the La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, The Cleveland Play House, The Old Globe, San Diego Repertory Theatre and Nebraska Repertory Theater. Ms. Lohr has been a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association since 1987.
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Dallas Theater Center (Richard Hamburger, Artistic Director; Mark Hadley, Managing Director) Founded in 1959, Dallas Theater Center is committed to producing classic, contemporary, and new plays of the highest artistic quality, and to creating communal experiences that inspire new ways of thinking and living. DTC presents five mainstage shows each season along with its annual production of A Christmas Carol, and premiered a workshop series in its 2003-2004 season that features both emerging and nationally recognized writers of the highest caliber. Dallas Theater Center offers year-round theater classes for adults and children and welcomes thousands of students to the theater each year as part of DTC’s school outreach program, Project Discovery. Dallas Theater Center productions are staged in the intimate confines of the Kalita Humphreys Theater in Turtle Creek, designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Previous co-productions with ATC: Anna in the Tropics, Three Tall Women and Crumbs from the Table of Joy.
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Kansas City Repertory Theatre Now in its 42nd year, Kansas City Repertory Theatre is one of the Midwest region’s premier professional theatre companies. Under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Peter Altman and the theatre’s trustees the Rep has expanded the range and diversity of its artists, achieved a major redesign and reconstruction of the Rep’s performance space and is currently engaged in the construction of an additional performance space, a 315-seat theatre in downtown Kansas City, planned to open in 2007. This season, in addition to the co-production of Hank Williams: Lost Highway with Arizona Theatre Company and Dallas Theater Center, the Rep will present Shaw’s romantic comedy Man and Superman; the reminiscences of President Harry S. Truman in Give ‘Em Hell, Harry; Lorraine Hansberry’s inspiring American classic A Raisin in the Sun; the deeply humane story The Trip to Bountiful; and one of the funniest classics in the annals of American comedy Room Service. Previous co-productions with ATC: The Pirates of Penzance, Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright and It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues.
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