1st Stage Theatre – Tysons Corner, VA

Director and Cast

Performances:
Fridays 8 pm
Saturdays 2 pm & 8 pm
Sundays 2 pm & 7 pm

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Michael Chamberlin
Director

MICHAEL CHAMBERLIN DIRECTOR: Almost Maine, 1st Stage; Candide or Optimism adapted by TJ Edwards (upcoming April 2013, Spooky Action Theater); Happy-ish (Fordham University @ Lincoln Center); Fully Committed (Millbrook Playhouse); Washing Machine (Drama Desk & Hewes American Theater Wing Nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design, NY Innovative Theater Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance - The Chocolate Factory & Manbites Dog Theater); Porcelain (Helen Hayes Nomination - Outstanding Director, Tsunami Theatre Company); Bat Boy: The Musical (3 Helen Hayes Noms.), A Clockwork Orange, Love’s Fire, Kit Marlowe, (The Studio Theatre 2ndStage); Class Action (Imagination Stage); The Glory of Living (Didactic Theatre Company). Assistant Director: The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center Theater); Of Mice and Men (Westport Country Playhouse); Carnival!, Mister Roberts, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, (The Kennedy Center); Indian Blood (Primary Stages); Glamour (New Works Festival/ Mark Taper Forum); Fences (Round House Theatre); The Matchmaker (Ford’s Theatre); Privates on Parade (The Studio Theatre). Member: SDC, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Directors Lab West.

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Matt Dewberry
Huey

Matt Dewberry (Huey) is thrilled to be returning to 1st Stage after having previously appeared in Humble Boy, Fuddy Meers, and By Jeeves. Other credits include NEW YORK: You for Me for You (MaYi Theatre). LOCAL: You for Me for You (Woolly Mammoth); Habit of Art (Helen Hayes Nomination, Best Ensemble), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Mojo (Studio Theatre); Birds of a Feather (Helen Hayes Nomination, Best Ensemble) (Hub Theatre); Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Keegan Theatre); On the Waterfront (American Century Theatre); Mulan (Imagination Stage). EDUCATION: Auburn University: BFA; Catholic University: MFA. UPCOMING: Voodoo Macbeth (American Century Theatre); Full Monty (Keegan Theatre); Peter and Wendy (Imagination Stage).

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Drew Kopas
Aldo

Drew Kopas (Aldo) is excited for his first show at 1st Stage! CREDITS: Romeo in A Commedia Romeo and Juliet (Faction of Fools); Gunner in Misalliance, Young Charlie in Da (Olney Theatre Center); Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice (Virginia Shakespeare Festival); Lakshman in The Ramayana, Melchior in On the Razzle (Constellation Theatre); Freddy/Nepommuck in Pygmalion (Everyman Theatre); King Louis XIV in Las Meninas (Rep Stage); Curio in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Orlando in As You Like It (National Players); Archidamus in The Winter's Tale (Great Lakes Theater)

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Anne Nottage
Janice

Anne Nottage (Janice) is making her debut with 1st Stage. DC credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author, Richard III and The Tempest (WSC Avant Bard); Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, MacBird and Machinal (The American Century Theater); The Importance of Being Earnest (Scena Theatre); Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost and Twelfth Night (Maryland Shakespeare Festival); The Butterfingers Angel (Rep Stage); The Oresteia (Constellation Theatre Company); Blood, Sweat and Fears (Molotov Theatre Group); and Love's Labour's Lost, Troilus and Cressida and The Comedy of Errors (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company). She has an MFA in Acting from The Catholic University of America.

Suzanne Richard
Aunt May

Suzanne Richard (Aunt May) has a BA in Theatre from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is Artistic Director of Open Circle Theatre, DC’s first professional theatre dedicated to showcasing the work of artists with disabilities in integrated settings. She has also performed with Ford’s Theatre, Folger Theatre, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Washington Shakespeare Company, Studio Secondstage, Langacre Lea, Taffety Punk, Project Y, Imagination Stage, and performed and co-directed a recent production with Susan Lynskey and students at Georgetown University.

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Dani Stoller
Teresa

Dani Stoller (Teresa) is thrilled to be back at 1st Stage after previously performing the role of Flora in their production of Flora the Red Menace. Most recently, Dani revived her role as Emily Bronte in Dizzy Miss Lizzy's Roadside Revue presents The Brontes at The Kennedy Center. Previous credits include: Dying City and Really, Really (Signature Theater); Nevermore (Creative Cauldron); F@#king Up Everything (Woolly Mammoth); The Aristocrats (Theater J); and Chicago (Kensington Arts Center).