Michael Alltop Durang, Durang |
- Michael is pleased to return to Ithaca
after spending the summer of 1997 as
a Drama League director at the
Hangar Theatre where he directed The
Reluctant Dragon for Kidstuff, and
Cop-Out and Macbett in the Wedge.
Other Hangar credits include fight
choreography for The Rose Tattoo
and The Complete Wks of Wllm
Shkspr (abridged), and Assistant
Director for The Crucible. Michael
spent three years in Syracuse in the
MFA program for Drama, acting in
several shows and directing The Good
Woman of Setzuan for the Drama
Department. He current;y lives in
Pittsburgh with his wife and baby boy,
and is very glad to have the
oppertunity to travel back to CNY to
work with Rachel Lampert and the
Kitchen Theatre Company.
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Michele Minnick Julie Johnson |
- Michele is a performer, director,
writer, and Russian translator.
Directing experience includes
Marriage by Nikolai Gogol, The
Danube by Maria Irene Fornes, and
most recently, Tesseract in Blue. an
origional piece with text by Catherine
Scarboro. Tesseract in Blue was
presented on the American Living
Room Series in NYC. She is also a
member of East Coast Artists (Artistic
Director Richard Schecher), and
translated and performed in his version
of Chekhov's Three Sisters. Michele
is a graduate of Vassar College, the
Moscow Art Theatre Studio School,
The Norwich University Russian
School, and has trained extensively
with Anne Bogart and the SITI
company.
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Nickole Epp Valley Song |
- Nicole is pleased to make her
American proffesional directing debut
at the Kitchen Theatre. Recently,
Nicole directed Aphra Behn's The
City Heiredd at Wells where she was
a Professor of Theatre. Prior to that
experience, Nicole directed several
productions in Canada with the
University of Calgary (where she
recieved her MFA in Directing). Some
directing credits include: Just Yell Fire
(a collaborative creation), Personal
Convictions by Vivienne Laxdale,
Girls Night Out by Diane
Montgomery, and Sticky Fingers by
Eve Lewis. Additionally, Nicole has
staged managed Sticks & Stones by
James Reaney, and Oh My Baby for
the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff,
Alberta, Canada.
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