DARRIE LAWRENCE (Mother) TACT: Company member since 2000/01 season. 18 productions with the company, most recently
Waters of the Moon. National Tour: Doubt; Quilters; Great Expectations. Broadway:
Come Back Little Sheba; Buried Child; Steel Magnolias. Off-Broadway: Long Island Sound (TACT)
The Other Side (Manhattan Theatre Club); Portraits (Union Sq.)
Everybody’s Ruby (Public);
La Ronde (Ohio).
Regional: The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Noises Off, The Foreigner (Salt Lake City);
Three Tall Women (Syracuse);
Angels in America (Buffalo);
Retreat from Moscow, Ten Little Indians, Merry Wives of Windsor-Texas (St. Louis);
Night of the Iguana (Denver);
Our Town, Dancing at Lughnasa (Cincinnati);
Seascape, Harvey (Cleveland);
Anything Goes (Birmingham). Summer stock at Monomoy Theatre, Geneva Summer Theatre, Peterborough Players. Film/TV:
Pretty; Hitch, August Rush, Kettle of Fish, Third Watch, various soaps. Ms. Lawrence has an MFA from Penn State University.
MARGARET NICHOLS (Barbara)
TACT: Company Member since 2001/02. 25 productions with the company, most recently
Candle-Light.
New York: Seeing Stars (NYMF 2009);
Bedroom Farce (off-broadway, Beckett Theatre)
Long Island Sound (TACT);
Christmas Carol (Lucille Lortel);
What You Will (original musical based on
Twelfth Night - world premiere, Moonwork Prods);
Naked (Gene Frankel Theatre, Themantics). National Tour:
Les Miserables.
Regional: Jane Eyre (SF Critic’s Circle Award- Best Actress; Theatreworks, Mtn. View, CA);
A Little Night Music (Dean Goodman Award- Best Supporting, Post Street Theatre, SF, CA);
Urinetown,
Picasso at the Lapin Agile,
Gypsy,
Little Shop and others (Weston Playhouse, VT).
Television: All My Children. Margaret is a graduate of the Univ. of Michigan Musical Theatre Dept. and attended the Marymount London Drama Program. www.margaretnichols.com
RICHARD THIERIOT (Randy)
TACT: The Confidential Clerk; The Late George Apley; The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (TW Festival, Provincetown, MA).
Regional: Clybourne Park (ACT),
Design for Living (Shakespeare Theater DC),
When Tang Met Laika, Harvey, You Can’t Take It With You (Denver Center Theater Company),
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pastures of Heaven, Midsummer Night’s Dream (California Shakespeare Theater),
As You Like It, King Lear, Engaged (Shakespeare Santa Cruz),
Servant of Two Masters, Julius Ceasar (Colorado Shakespeare Festival).
LYNN WRIGHT (Jane)
TACT: Company Member since 1994/95. 29 productions with the company, most recently
The Memorandum.
Broadway: The Elephant Man (Sean Mathias, dir.). Off-Broadway:
As Bees in Honey Drown (Mark Brokaw, dir.);
The Democracy Project (Culture Project/Naked Angels); La Mama E.T.C.; Jean Cocteau Rep.; Theatreworks USA.
National Tour: M. Butterfly. Regional:
All’s Well That Ends Well (Old Globe, Sheldon Epps, dir.);
Cymbeline (Huntington Theatre);
Eleemosynary (TheaterWorks Hartford); Cakewalk (Marshall Mason, dir.); American Conservatory Theatre; VITA Shakespeare Festival. Ms. Wright is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theatre.
SCOTT ALAN EVANS (Director)
TACT: Co-Artistic & Executive Director. Since 1993, TACT has unearthed and Evans has produced and/or directed over 100 forgotten or neglected plays, bringing many back to the cannon of plays produced. Evans’ production of T.S. Eliot’s
The Cocktail Party was among TACT’s most successful and was cited as one of the best revivals of the season by the
Wall Street Journal. For TACT, Evans adapted & directed the US premiere of
Noël Coward’s Long Island Sound, and conceived, co-wrote & directed the world premiere of
The Triangle Factory Project.
The New York Post called
Triangle "the theatrical event of the season." The play has been published by Dramatists Play Services and continues to enjoy productions across the country. More recently, Evans has produced ten and directed six of TACT’s productions presented at their current home at Theater Row, including
Home, The Sea, The Runner Stumbles, Incident at Vichy, The Cocktail Party, and most recently,
Three Men on a Horse. In addition to his work with TACT, Evans wrote & directed the musical,
Goose! Beyond the Nursery (3 Outer Critic Circle Award nominations including Best Off-Broadway Prod.). Other recent NY Theatre: Joseph Hayden’s
The Seven Last Words… (Chamber Music Society - Lincoln Center);
The Constant Wife (NYU Grad. Acting). Mr. Evans served for 10 years as Artistic Director of the American Musicals Project, producing an annual concert series at the New-York Historical Society celebrating great musical theatre writers and featuring Broadway headliners. Education: BFA, Boston Univ., School for the Arts (magna cum laude), and a former student and assistant to Michael Howard at the Michael Howard Studios. Member: SDC; Dramatist Guild.
BRETT J. BANAKIS (Set Design)
TACT: Three Men on a Horse.
Recent design credits: Titus Andronicus (Public LAB);
The Little Death, Vol. 1 (Incubator Arts Project);
Dead Fish (HERE Arts);
What Happened To Bill Viola? (Ars Nova, Berkshire Fringe). Assistant designer:
Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera)
; Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo,
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever,
American Idiot, Ragtime (Broadway)
. Brett has worked internationally and in the U.S. in opera, on Broadway and regionally, developing long-term relationships with designers Derek McLane, Christine Jones, Paul Steinberg, Andrew Lieberman, Marsha Ginsberg, Neil Jampolis, John Iacovelli and many others. Along with director Rafael Gallegos and costume designer Sydney Maresca, Brett is a winner of the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase of OPERA America for their production concept of Philip Glass’s
Hydrogen Jukebox.
Education: M.F.A. in Design for Stage and Film from NYU and a B.A. in Theater Arts from UCLA.
BRADLEY KING (Lighting Design)
TACT: Debut. Bradley is a lighting designer based in New York City and has worked across the US and United Kingdom. Recent NYC:
Assassins and
Sweet Charity (New Studio on Broadway),
Dead Fish (HERE Arts Center),
Macbeth and
Richard II (York Shakespeare Company),
Playing in Traffic (Women’s Project),
Tongue of a Bird and
StrindbergStrindberg (NYU Grad Acting),
Man of La Mancha (Room 5001).
Upcoming: Marriage of Figaro for Kentucky Opera,
Christmas Carol for Virginia Stage Company. Associate designs on and off Broadway for Jane Cox, Mark McCullough, and Robert Wierzel. MFA, NYU.
HALEY LIEBERMAN (Costume Design)
TACT: Debut. Broadway: Asst. Costume Design: The
Royal Family;
Les Contes des Hoffmann, Barbiere de Seviglia, Madame Butterfly & An American Tragedy (Metropolitan Opera).
Other New York: These Seven Sicknesses, King Lear (Exit, Pursued by a Bear, Resident costume designer):
Dido and Aeneas (Juilliard);
Once in a Lifetime (Atlas Room);
Alcide al Bivio (Columbia);
A Promise Best Kept (Theater for The New City);
Burn This (NYU);
Welcome Home Steve (Player’s Theater). Regional:
Carmen, La Boheme, C
apuleti e i Montecchi & Hansel and Gretel (Crested Butte Music Festival);
Baby with the Bathwater (Inst. for Contemp. Arts);
Memory of Salt (Boston Center for the Arts). International:
Gianni Schicci (Inst. Vocal Arts, Tel Aviv). Film: William Vincent (Premier at Tribeca Film Festival 2010), Nightlife (Premier Tribeca Film Festival). Commercial/Television: White (ITVS/Future States for PBS); Kmart "Live Out Loud;" various AT&T. Upcoming / Current: Capuleti i Montecchi (Opera Boston), These Seven Sicknesses (The Flea). Awards: Recepient, Opera America’s Robert L. Tobin Directer-Designer Competition 2010-201. Website: www.haleylieberman.com
STEPHEN KUNKEN (Sound Designer)
TACT: Bedroom Farce; The Late Christopher Bean; The Memorandum. Recent New York credits: musical
Seeing Stars (world premiere, The New York Musical Theatre Fest.);
Bedroom Farce (TACT) Matthew Schneck’s Badge (world premiere, Rattlestick); Richard Thompson’s Big Doolie (world premiere New York Fringe Fest.). He was the resident Sound Designer for the award-winning River Rep Theatre Company in Connecticut for seven seasons where some of his favorite designs include: The Heiress, Dinner with Friends, The Good Doctor, The Foreigner and Proof. In his other life Stephen is an actor whose work include Television, Film and Broadway.
LAUREN MADDEN (Props)
TACT: Three Men on a Horse. Most recently: working with The Spoon Group as a properties artist. She was the set designer for
All Shook Up at the White Plains Performing Arts Center and for the productions of
Marisol and
Book of Days, in repertory at Purchase College, where she received a BFA in Scenic Design. Lauren Madden is excited to be working with TACT.
