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DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS FMU Theatre Alumni - "Working In The Business" |
Currently: | Technical
Director, Lexington
Children's Theatre,
Lexington, Kentucky "I have been in this position since July of 2004 and it has been keeping me very busy. Currently we do 8 shows a year plus a Summer Family Musical. Next season we are going to a 9 show season and the Summer Family Musical. I do all of this with a Master Electrician and a paint and props intern during the season (September to May) and over the summer I hire two production interns to help me build part of the next seasons shows. If you would like to see some of the work that I have been doing, please visit our website and the photo gallery." |
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Previously: | Seaside Music Theatre, Daytona Beach, Florida (2 seasons) |
Currently: | Artistic
Associate:
Ensemble
Theatre of Cincinnati Treasurer: The League of Cincinnati Theatres |
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Previously: |
Findlay
Summer
Theatre, Syracuse Stage (N.Y.) |
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Additional: | Casting Associate - Feature Film: Paramount Pictures, Speak Film Inc., Northlight Films, Inc., Devito Productions, HKM Films, Inc. |
Graduate
School: |
MFA
(Lighting
Design), Boston University |
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Currently: | Lighting
Designer
- Lightswitch,
N.Y. |
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Member: |
United
Scenic
Artist
- Local 829 |
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Bio: |
Charles
Foster's design credits include: The Front
Page,
Crimes of the Heart, Double Double, Lucy and the
Conquest, Create Fate,
The Blue Bird, Servant of Two Masters (Williamstown
Theatre Festival);
Laughing Wild (Huntington Theatre Co.); ATC 10x20
(Atlantic Theatre
Company); She Said / She Says (National Tour);
Subway Songs (National
Tour); Limitless Joy, The Comfort and Safety of Your
Own Home, Orphan
on God’s Highway, The Bomb (International Wow!);
Mario and the Magician
(Center for Contemporary Opera); The Alvin Ailey
School (Pope
Auditorium at Lincoln Center); The Expense of Spirit
(Ohio Ice
Factory); Vincent (Wings); I Google Myself, Bald
Diva (Theatre Askew);
The Trojan Women (Sarah Lawrence College); The
Tempest, Fetes de la
Nuit (Columbia Univ); La Boheme (Boheme Opera NJ).
Charles
is entering into his fifth year as a designer for
Lightswitch, a design
consortium committed to the continuing pursuit of
excellence in all
aspects of the lighting and projection design
process.
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Graduate
School: |
MPA
(Costume Design),
Oklahoma City University |
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Recent work: | Actor/narrator
with OKC Players children's theatre, 1999 season. Writer, director and costume designer for Greenroom, staged in Oklahoma City at the University and also at an outdoor theatre venue in 2000. Freelance designer working for Bill Whiten Designs, Burbank, CA, 2001. Drafted patterns and designed items for all the Dixie Stampedes. (Whiten was a designer for Vogue in the 1970's, and also designed for Neil Diamond and Michael Jackson (during the Jackson Five through Thriller period -- he was responsible for the one glove phase). |
Previously: |
Extra
- Dawson's Creek |
Currently: | Shop
Carpenter
(3rd
season) - Actors
Theatre
of
Louisville, Louisville, KY |
Currently: | Actor
-
Patchwork
Players, Columbia, S.C. |
Currently: | Actor
(6th
season) - Unto
These Hills, Cherokee, N.C. |
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Previously: |
Rags
to
Riches Theatre
Co., Durham, N.C. |
Graduate
School: |
MFA
(Vocal
Performance), New York University |
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Currently: | Actor
(5th
season) - Mac-Haydn
Theatre, N.Y. |
Graduate
School: |
Masters
of Theatre, Villanova University, Philadelphia. Ashley attended with a
Costume Assistantship and focused on costuming, dramaturgy, and
playwriting. |
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Currently: | Office
Manager for the Theatre and Studio Art departments at Villanova
University. She is also working as a freelance dramaturg in the
Philadelphia area. |
Currently: | Actor
- The
Yes Show, Stone Street Theatre, N.Y. Various "extra" work including Law and Order |
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Previously: |
Actor
and
Co-Founder
- Rags
to
Riches
Theatre Co., Durham, N.C. |
Graduate
School: |
MFA
(Scenography and
Technical Production),
Virginia Tech |
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Currently: | Assistant
Technical
Director
- McCarter
Theatre
Co., Princeton, N.J. Resident Designer - Westminster Choir College, Princeton, N.J. Resident Designer - Jeykell Island Musical Theatre Festival, Jeykell Island, GA. |
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Previously: |
TheatreVirginia,
Dogwood
Dell, Unto These Hills |
CJ Miller served as the dramaturg for multiple FMU productions including And Baby Makes Seven and The Fourth Wall. He has also performed numerous times on stage in Back, Back, Back, Five Women the Same Dress, Our Town, and many others. He has been part of production teams for community theatre shows and was the dramaturg for an equity production of Miss Saigon at the Western Playhouse summer theatre company at Missouri Western State University. A former member of the United States Air Force, CJ performs standup comedy and has produced, written, and directed numerous of his own productions. |
Graduate
School: |
MFA
(Technical
Production), University of North Carolina - Chapel
Hill |
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Currently: | Associate Professor of Design/Technology, Department of Theatre, Temple
University |
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Previously: |
Assistant
Professor/Production
Manager - San
Francisco
State
University Technical Director - Santa Rosa Repertory Theatre La Grange College, Playmakers Repertory, Utah Shakespearean Festival, California Theatre Center, The Asian American Theatre Company, New York Fringe Festival, Natchez Festival of Music, Loyola McMannus Theatre |
Currently: | Technical Director - Multi Image Group Production Manager - Cirque Productions |
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Previously: |
Crew
Chief
- Unto
These Hills, Cherokee, N.C. Carpenter/Electrician - StageWorks Lighting Ltd., Raleigh, N.C. Stage Hand - various roadshows/national tours |
Currently: | Resident
Scenic
Designer - Stray Dog
Theatre,
Saint Louis, MO. |
Currently: | Actor
- Disney
World,
Orlando, FL. |
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Member: | Actors'
Equity
Association |
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Previously: |
Flatrock
Playhouse,
Hendersonville, N.C. |
Graduate
School: |
MFA
(Scenic
Design
Candidate), Virginia Tech |
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Currently: | Scenic
Artist
- East
Carolina Summer Theatre
Co. |
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Previously: |
Findlay
Summer
Theatre Co., Spoleto
Festival |
Graduate
School: |
Additional
training
at the Oxford School of Drama and as a production
intern for Sesame
Street |
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Currently: | Creator
of Puppetry
Arts Theatre, New York
City |
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Previously: |
Exhibitor
and
performer in NYC area galleries; production assistant,
script
coordinator, cameraman, etc. for a variety of
entertainment and
production companies. |